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Jason Potgieter (1980-2021?). Actor, playwright, puppet theatre practitioner, teacher.
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Biography
In 1998, his last year at school, his aim was to go to Cornerstone Christian College the next year to study theology and psychology and at the same time pursuing acting, and hopefully at the end of it all, combine them.
Jason was diagnosed with leukaemia when he was in grade 9 and was confined to an isolation ward for a long period.
Jason taught puppetry and facilitated object workshops around the world, including at Western Michigan University in 2012, in 2014 (as puppet director for their production of The King Stag), and again in 2017 (as puppet director for their production of Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher).
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Creative exchange manager/curator of Iqonga/Platform at Out The Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Performance in 2010.
He was one of the founder members of The Mechanicals Collective.
As actor and playwright
He wrote and acted in The Things You Left Behind.
Acting work includes:
- Andrew in House of Shadows (2004)
- Kostya in The Seagull, Little Theatre (March 2006)
- The Life and Work of Petrovic Petar (Intimate Theatre 2007)
- the drug-addicted son in Wrestlers (2008)
- George in Glengarry Glen Ross (2008)
- The Highway Crossing or, The Tale of a Golden Fish (2010)
- Get Kraken! (Intimate Theatre, 2013)
As director
Jason directed Crossing the Line (2018)
As puppet theatre practitioner
For Handspring Puppet Company:
- Il Ritorno d'Ulisse (The Return of Ulysses)
- Ouroboros (Janni Younge in association with Handspring Puppet Company, 2011)
- I Love You When You're Breathing (director, 2012)
He also manipulated the satirical puppetry series ZA News
Awards
In 1998, he won the floating trophy at the annual Dalro national acting competition, organised by the drama department of the Pretoria Technikon.
Sources
Interview with Bianca Coleman, Cape Argus, 25 August 1998.
Cape Times, 25 November 2004.
Cape Argus, 21 March 2006.
'Let's hear it for more of the same', IOL, 19 August 2008
Cape Times, 4 November 2008.
ThinkFest programme, 2012.
'WMU University Theatre's 'King Stag' a fable made fun by men, beasts, puppets and comedic actors (review)', mlive, 4 April 2014
'WMU Theatre produces world premiere for family audiences', WMU News, 20 February 2017
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