Bio
Princess Zinzi Mhlongo is a South African actress and theatre director best known for featuring in the SABC1 reality series Life's a Stage, which documents her journey to take her play Trapped to the Grahamstown and Saltzburg theatre festivals.
Mhlongo was born in eMalahleni, Witbank in Mpumalanga, and matriculated in 2003. She was a member of the Witbank Youth Theatre in 2001 and 2002 and completed her Bachelors Degree in Drama at The Tshwane University of Technology in 2007.
She is also the founder of Tick Tock Productions an entertainment company that lives by the slogan "There's a time for everything".
By the age of 24 she had directed plays like Naked Goddess, So What's New? and Crocodiles and also assisted in a lot of community theatre projects during her schooling years, working with numerous companies in community upliftment programs.
Princess directed her professional debut And The Girls in Their Sunday Dresses at the State Theatre in 2008. In 2009 the production received great reviews at the Grahamstown festival.
She won the Standard bank Young Artist Award for Theatre 2012.