Actress Marya Okoth wins prestigious award at ‘The Kenyan Theatre Awards'

Kenyan actress Marya Okoth has won another prestigious award as the year 2024 takes shape.

Marya own big at the 2024 The Kenya Theatre Awards after taking home the award for the ‘Best Breakthrough Female performer’ from her role in the play ‘Husband Home and Away.

A happy Ms Okoth shared the good news via her socials thanking her fans for always being supportive.

“AMKENI WE HAVE ANOTHER AWARD HOME!!!!

I am so honoured, I am so grateful that the passion and zeal I put in my craft is appreciated this much🥹. I can only aim higher🚀🚀🚀 I only did one show (HOME AND AWAY) in theatre and the performance was so good it got me a nomination which is now an award," Marya shared.

“Breaking through in both SCREEN AND THEATRE😎😎 That’s whats up!!!!!!! Always do your best, You never know who is watching! Lastly thank you so much @thecronyproductions for sharing your stage with me,”.

The A Nurse Toto actress is among the fast-rising actors in Kenya. Last year she won the award for the Most Influential Actress award at Pulse Influencer Awards.

"This award really means a lot to my career it only shows that I have a ready audience, all imebaki is for me to do the work, they've proven to me and shown me that they love what I do and are taking in what I'm doing. 10 years to come it's going to be very good I see myself as a very big brand and a big actress that is if continue with the consistency I started with.  

Other than thanking her fans she happily dedicated her award to her husband comedian YY and thanked him for all the efforts he put into making her star.

"I won the award went back to sit and told him thank you vitu zingine nitamwambia badae. Watu wengine wanaeza feel nisimuonyeshe ni yeye alikufanyia but it will be so bad if I don't give what belongs to Caesar to Caesar.

"Oliver, as I call him, has taken me from watu hawanijui to where I am today, it's his work, Oliver amenifunza the commercial bit about the business, amenifundisha kuongelesha clients, amenifunza hadi kucreate content yangu."

Other than praising her husband for teaching her the keys to acting she further thanked him for helping her generate her own content.

"When we started yeye ndio alikuwa ananipea idea then I acted it out hadi nilikuwa nafeel I'll do that forever cause I used to tell him I'm not good at creating and coming up with ideas but amenifikisha point I now have my own wings I can fly on my own and I don't take that for granted."

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