Weyni Mengesha is a Canadian film and theatre director, based in Toronto, Ontario.
[1][2][3] She is known as the director of the plays da kink in my hair, and Kim's Convenience.
Mengesha married American actor Eion Bailey in 2011.
[1][5] Observers applauded her appointment, and that of her colleague, executive director Emma Stenning, as it meant the two senior posts at the theatre would be filled by women, after the previous male director Albert Schultz resigned after actors accused him of preying on female subordinates.
[4] Mengesha co-signed a letter of support to the Black Lives Matter movement, in June 2020, following several high profile incidents where police killed black civilians, in both the United States and Canada.