Mitzi Booysen

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(19*-) Actress, director, translator and playwright. ***

Biography

Training

Career

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

As actress performed in Playing with Fire (Baxter Theatre, 1983), Gulls (Baxter Theatre, 1989) Macbeth (Dieter Reible, 1990), As playwright wrote The Ashes on their Heads (19**), The Time of the Hyena (Windybrow Theatre circa 1986), *. Translations include Bernard-Marie Koltés’s Battle of the Dogs and the Black (19**) and Bloeiende Lente (Wedekind’s Frühlings Erwachen or Spring Awakening) and Ayckbourn’s ** (into German as ). The creative head of Endemol South Africa, she became became the chief writer on the TV series Isidingo in 1998 and in 2005 became the storyline writer of the TV series Binnelanders.



Awards, etc

She received the 1987 Johannesburg Repertory Players DALRO Award for her role as Liz in Ashes on Our Heads.


Sources

Die Eend programme, 1993


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