Jerry Mofokeng

(195*-) Stage, film and TV actor, director, lecturer. Born in * Trained at * Acting * In 198* he went to the USA to study at **. While there, he revived Theatre Workshop ‘71’s Survival in the USA, with members of the original cast, who had moved there (1990). Other directing experience includes *, Zakes Mda’s The Hill for the University of the Witwatersrand in 1992, Athol Fugard’s Nongogo (Johannesburg Civic, 1994) and at the Pieter Roos Theatre in 1994. He directed the South African premiére of Zakes Mda’s The Nun’s Romantic Story at the Johannesburg Civic in 1995. In 1997 he reconstructed and produced Gibson Kente’s Lifa* for. In 200* became MEC for Arts and Culture in Mpumalanga. He directed Athol Fugard’s Boesman and Lena in 1993.

2014: Appointed Artistic Director of PACOFS in Bloemfontein.