David Kakuta Mulwa (born 9 April 1945) is a Kenyan writer, academic, theatre director and actor.
Born in Mukaa, Machakos County, Kenya, Mulwa attended Nairobi University.
Encouraged by his professors, he attended UCLA with a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship and earned a masters degree in theatre.
He went to Ohio University where he was a teaching assistant in English before proceeding to Athens between 1979 and 1980.
He has been an adjudicator in the Kenya Drama Festivals Committee, Nairobi, since 1978 and also serves as a member in the governing council, Kenya Cultural Centre Committee, Nairobi[2] He has been awarded a Hero’s award by the Kenyatta University’s governing council and also by the Kenya Film Commission twice; in Kalasha Award for lifetime Achievement and Theatre Lifetime Achievement [3]