Welcome
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I am a University of Cape Town graduate with distinction in a BA in Theatre Making and Performance. In my final year of study, I co-won the Most Promising Student Writer award for being part of UCT’s student production Behind Every Yawn is a Silent Shout in the National Arts Festival. Writing, directing and producing my own work, I attended the NAF the next year and won a Standard Bank Ovation Award for my first professional production, Salt, as well as a PANSA New Writing Award. Since then I have written two plays: Warrior Green, a post-apocalyptic tale of young eco-warriors for children and At The Edge of the Light, which came to life under the Theatre Arts Admin Emerging Director’s Bursary and the mentorship of Tossie Von Tonder. At the Edge of the Light was then chosen to be part of the 2018 National Arts Festival Main Stage. My latest work in 2021 with The Market Theatre was Lereko Mfono’s Little Fist, Big Heart. It was a wonderful experience and a highlight of my career so far.
Other direction highlights include The Woman Who Would Be King by Esosa Edosomwan, Why Not Socialism? by Brent Meersman, and assistant director to Greg Karvellas on Clybourn Park by Bruce Norris at the Fugard Theatre and Sue Pam Grant's Curl Up and Dye.
In addition to being a theatre writer and director, I have been a casting director, art director and a part-time Live Performance tutor at AFDA, Cape Town, and have directed year-end work such as Reza De Wet's Good Heavens, Aeschylus’ The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Dario Fo’s The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Martin Crimp's The Misanthrope and Arthur Millar’s The Crucible.
Awards and Noteworthys
PANSA New Writers Award 2014
Standard Bank Ovation Award 2014
Theatre Arts Admin Emerging Director's Bursary 2016
Part of the UJ Arts and Culture STAGED programme at NAF 2018
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