Megan Choritz
Megan Choritz (19*-). Actress, playwright, director, reviewer and blogger.
Also known by her married name Megan Furniss.
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Biography
Graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1986 and worked as an actress before starting her own improvisation troupe in Cape Town. She has written and co-written numerous plays and musicals, performed and directed theatre, and she improvises and teaches improv. She also writes short stories, poems and children’s stories.
Contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance
Owner of a theatre company called Improvision, she creates, writes and directs Industrial theatre and runs corporate workshops, teaching the skills of improvisation to business people.
In 2007 she began a blog called Megan's Head, in which she reviews plays and performances, and also comments on general matters theatrical and otherwise.
She has also written some novels, including Lost Property (2023)
As an actress
Performs TheatreSports with Improguise.
In January 2007, after seeing a particularly shocking production, she began an online review blog called Megan's Head.
As playwright
She writes plays, sometimes alone and sometimes with collaborators (e.g. Graham Weir or Robert Hobbs).
Single authored works include: The Tent, Drive with Me, The Terrified Tokoloshe, The Deep Red Sea, Song and Dance Clouds Like Waves.
Co-authored works include Walking Joe (2001), Noah (Artscape, 2005 (Co-author Graham Weir), The Rhino Woman with Melinda Ferguson (1993),
As director
Songs of Hangings (**), Redemptions (Graham Weir, 2006)
Awards, etc.
IGI Life Pick of the Windybrow Arts Festival Award, for The Rhino Woman (most original production).
Fleur du Cap for innovation in theatre and the People's Choice award for TheatreSports, 2009.
Sources
http://www.meganshead.co.za/about/
https://openbookfestival.co.za/authors/megan-choritz/
Various entries in the NELM catalogue.
Sunday Independent, 15 March 2009.
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