Skip Wright

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Skip Wright (19**-). Lighting designer, stage manager.

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

Productions as lighting designer include Dias, Voorlopige Vonnis (1980s), Laat-Februarie 1922 (CAPAB 1983), Going Under (1984), Zelda (1985), Tarts (1985), Moeders en Dogters (1985), Funeral March of a Marionette (1987), Periandros van Korinthe (CAPAB 1987), A Snake in the Garden (1988), Bartho Smit’s Die Keiser (CAPAB 1989), The Road to Mecca (CAPAB 1989), Ons Hou Konsert (CAPAB 1999), A Coloured Place (1999).

He was stage manager for Taraboemdery (CAPAB 1978), Geraldine Aron’s Along Came a Spider (1978), The Boxes (1980s), Die Joiner (CAPAB 1982), Smallholding (1989).

Skip was the production manager for Om die Stilte te Verbreek (1985) and he designed Pous Johanna II (1985).

Awards, etc.

He won the FNB Vita Award as Best Lighting Designer, award year 1997.

Sources

Cape Times, 31 March, 1988.

CAPAB Brochure, Aug-Nov 1989.

Natal Witness, 7 October 1997.

Die Burger, 8 June 1999.

Theatre programmes of various productions.

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