Kenlynn Ashby

Kenlynn Ashby is a choreographer and director.

Also billed as Kenlynn Sutherland or Kenlyn Sutherland in some cases after her marriage.

Biography

She was married to choreographer Geoffrey Sutherland and the couple had two daughters, Lisa Mary Sutherland and Natasha Kate Sutherland.

Contribution to South African theatre and performance

She at one time taught in the Drama Department of the University of Natal, Durban, and choreographed works for the Barefoot Dance Company founded by Jillian Hurst and Margaret Larlham in the 1960s.

Among the works she directed over the years have included:

1973: Noah (Johannesburg College of Education Dramatic Society)

1994 The Piano Men (written by Wendy Watson, credited as 1994)

2007: Sleeping Beauty (as Kenlyn Sutherland, with Steven Stead)

Sources

"Durban Theatre Awards Nominations", artSMart (article published : 2007-11-17)[]

Caroline Smart, 2015. Review of Dancing into Being, The Witness (5 February, 2015)[]

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