Brenda Lauth

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Brenda Lauth () Director, playwright, singer and journalist.

Biography

In the 1990s she was an arts columnist for The Natal Mercury.

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

Directed Good Day by Emanuel Peluso (The Space, 1975), **

She directed Stop the World – I Want to Get Off at the Little Abbey Theatre, Durban, in 1985.

Directed You Might As Well Live, 1996.

Directed Something Unspoken by Tennessee Williams in the Square Space Theatre on the university campus, Durban.

She wrote and directed Portrait of Dorothy Parker in the Square Space Theatre on the university campus, Durban.

She wrote and directed Veil of Disgrace starring Belinda Harward as Maud Allen at the Hilton Drama Festival, Hilton College, Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1998.

Directed and produced Rumpelstiltskin and Other Tales at the Killie Campbell estate in 20903 and African Tales with Pamela Tancsik, Zanele Mzolo and Adi Paxton at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in 2004.

Awards, etc

Nominated for Vita Award (Natal), Best director, award year 1996.

https://events.durbantheatre.com/event/615

Sources

Material held by NELM: [Collection: KORT, Maurice]: 2012. 379. 30. 9.

Sunday Tribune 31 December 1995; 4 July 1996.

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