Lillias Bode

Lillias Bode is an actress, production assistant and editor

Also credited as Lillias Tait.

Biography

She is married to the journalist and producer Peter Bode, who became her creative partner on most projects for decades, working together in many fields, from studio dramas and art shows to documentaries and game shows. Their 2024 memoir Pidgin and Pepper Soup shares four wild years of producing television in Nigeria.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

She has wide ranging experience of the film and TV industry, inter alia having worked as an actress on the TV series Dr. Marius Hugo (as "Sally", 1978 - credited as Lillias Tait), did the wardrobe and props for Billy Boy (1978) and continuity for Gemini (1980), and served as the producer for shows like Dancing with the Stars South Africa (Season 1 - 2018)[1].

She and her husband Peter Bode ran their own publication and production company for many years, producing magazines, talk shows, game shows, studio dramas and documentaries specialising in outreach programmes and numerous series on art and culture.

A notable recent joint project has been Theatre Lives, a series of interviews with a range of prominent theatre personalities. The interviews are by Bode himself and are filmed by Lillias Bode. The site aims at recording and documenting the theatrical past of South Africa.