Born in 1981, lives and works in Paris.
Passionate about writing and the intimacy that the performing arts can generate between invisiblized people, Penda Diouf’s works deal with identity, exile, oppressive situations, colonialism, injustice, and open onto ecofeminist imaginings where realism may make incursions. With words and history as her raw material, Penda Diouf breathes sensitivity into her plays in order to foster emotion and projection in audiences. Associated with different theatrical spaces, her plays have won prizes in France and Germany, and been translated into German, English, Armenian, Czech and Finnish.
In 2025, she directed her first play, Pistes, a multiple award-winning
text that she wrote in 2020.