Hope Azeda is the one who started the Mashirika troupe that has been acting role-plays since 1998, she's a Rwandese, married and has two daughters. 

She started acting in role-plays at the age of eight, but she realized it as her gift when she was in high school in Uganda.

She continued her studies of Music, Dance and Drama at the Makerere University and did a degree in Drama-acting. 

She has played a big role is Rwanda's role-plays and has been among different film crews that have made films about Rwanda's history. Now she travels around the world promoting role-plays. Among what she does are; drama-writing, coaching actors and actresses, and even acting. 

Like any other job, she faces different challenges but she said; her passion for it flies her over those challenges. The other challenge she faces in her drama-acting job is that she has to always leave her family. But with prayer she manages to live through it, she said. 

One of the achievements she's proud of is having been able to successfully be a manager of a drama in which 1000 people acted together.