Greg Karvellas
Greg Karvellas (19**-). Director, actor, designer.
Contents
Biography
Youth
Training
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
As producer
With his long-time collaborator, writer Louis Viljoen, he has co-produced The Abusers, The Bile Boys, The Frontiersmen.
As director
He directed The Frontiersman (2006), Trampled (2006), The Cooksisters (2009), Champ (which enjoyed successful seasons at the Artscape Arena Theatre, The Fugard Studio Theatre, the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, and the Edinburgh Festival in 2012/2013.), A Certain Lady (2014), Shakespeare in Love (2017). His directing credits in 2019 include Athol Fugard’s Statements After An Arrest Under The Immorality Act which ran at both the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees and The Fugard Theatre. In 2018, Greg directed David Mamet’s Oleanna, Athol Fugard’s The Road to Mecca, Joshua Harmon’s Significant Other and the return season of Lee Hall’s Shakespeare in Love. In 2017, directing credits included Louis Viljoen’s new work, The Eulogists. In 2016 Greg directed Bad Jews by Joshua Harmon, Contractions by Mike Bartlett, Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park and The Father by Florian Zeller starring Marius Weyers.
He was Associate Director on A Human Being Died That Night written by Nicholas Wright, under Director Jonathan Munby, which ran in Cape Town and Johannesburg as well as at The Hampstead Theatre in London and Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in New York in 2014.
By 2015 he was on the management team of The Fugard, and worked as the theatre’s first appointed Artistic Director.
As actor
Acted in The Bile Boys (2010).
As designer
Designed for The Verbalists (2012), Green Man Flashing (2012).
Awards, etc
Nominated the Rosalie van der Gucht Prize for New Directors 2012.
Sources
Sunday Independent, 16 February 2014.
"Master Harold"...and the Boys programme 2020. https://www.thefugard.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Master-Harold-and-the-Boys-Programme.pdf
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