Jill Cooke
Jill Cooke (19*-) Actress.
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Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
She has appeared on stage in Funeral Games (The Space 1972); Spider by Geraldine Aron (Hottentots Holland Dramatic Society, 1985); Enter a Free Man (Milnerton Players 1998); Murdered to Death (Milnerton Players 2000).
She adapted and directed A Christmas Carol (Hottentots Holland Dramatic Society, 1978).
In 2006 she designed (with Alison King) the decor for a Claremont Dramatic Society production of Run for your Wife.
Awards, etc.
She was nominated for a Cape Times Theatre Award in 1995 as best supporting actress for her role in Holiday Snap.
Sources
Astbury 1979.
Cape Times, 22 September 1998, 4 April 2006.
Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.
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