Keith Galloway
Keith Galloway (19*-2010) British-born actor, writer, director, choreographer.
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Biography
He trained at the Mary Archbutt studios in Manchester UK.
He moved to SA in 1970, where he died in July 2010. He married Delia Sainsbury in 1970 after having met her in a Drury Lane production of The Four Musketeers. Their daughters Joanne (billed as Jo Galloway) and Genna Galloway have followed in their footsteps as actors, singers and dancers.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
As actor
He starred in West Side Story which was staged at the Alexander Theatre in 1970 by Hymie Udwin’s Academy.
As theatre entrepenuer
Together with his wife, Delia Sainsbury, he opened small theatres in Johannesburg.
They staged a musical for children called Wooglebugs, Witches and Wonderful Things at the newly opened Little Theatre at the Carlton Centre in 1983. They moved to the Little Theatre in Rosebank from 1987.
As arts educator
In 1992 Galloway and Sainsbury moved to Cape Town and established The Waterfront Theatre School.
As writer/director
He devised and co-directed (with Bess Finney) Stuff 'N' Onsense (1985).
He adapted and directed Even Clowns Can Cry (1986).
Awards, etc
Sources
Cape Times, 3 December 2009.
Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.
Tucker, 1997.
For more information
Tribute by Delia Sainsbury broadcast on 21 July 2010 [1].
Who's Who Southern Africa [2].
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