Doreen is the founder of Uhuru Freedom School of Drama. She has extensive knowledge of Drama and Theatre. She studied Drama and Play Back Theatre at Wits University Drama School. She also studied Women and Law in Southern Africa at UNISA. She is a Gender Equality activist and she takes Gender Equality matters very seriously. She has worked at the Apartheid Museum as an Exhibition Materials Developer. Before getting into drama and theatre, she was an Afrikaans and English teacher in a high school. She is an actor, writer and drama teacher. Her first professional theatre exposure was with Sophiatown which she co-researched, co-wrote and acted in. Sophiatown was launched as a theatre production and later published as a book which became a set book for high schools and universities. It took her travelling all-over Europe (Germany, Italy, France, Denmark, Switzerland, United Kingdom and many more European countries) and the United States of America and Canada. She has acted in many more other productions on stage and on screen (which she has always been both a researcher, writer and actor). She wrote this school radio program English in Action teaching English through radio. She is one of the establishers of the Market Theatre Laboratory now known as Ramolao Makhene Theatre. She also wrote insets for Theatre & Change in South Africa published by Geoffrey Davis and Anne Fuchs. She is presently working with teachers in various schools helping them to teach English through the use of drama.