Deon Opperman - Revision history

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 ==Projects in management, education and archival services==
-He is the founder of ''inter alia'', the '''[[African Film and Drama Academy]]''' ('''[[AFDA]]'''), a training institution for scriptwriters and playwrights, focusing on commercial work rather than literary work), the '''[[Afrikaanse Kontemporêre Drama Argief]]''' ("Afrikaans contemporary drama archive", ) or '''[[AKDA]]''' - a digital library of playtexts.
+He is the founder of ''inter alia'', the '''[[African Film and Drama Academy]]''' ('''[[AFDA]]'''), a training institution for scriptwriters and playwrights, focusing on commercial work rather than literary work), the '''[[Afrikaanse Kontemporêre Drama Argief]]''' ("Afrikaans contemporary drama archive", ) or '''[[AKDA]]''' - a digital library of [[Afrikaans]] playtexts.
 Is also the CEO of [[Deon Opperman Productions]] (Pty) Ltd and the director and head writer for [[Overberg Productions]] (Pty) Ltd.

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 ==Projects in management, education and archival services==
-He is the founder of ''inter alia'', the '''[[Afrikaanse Drama Akademie]]''' ('''[[AFDA]]'''), a training institution for scriptwriters and playwrights, focussing on commercial work rather than literary work), the '''[[Afrikaanse Kontemporêre Drama Argief]]''' ("Afrikaans contemporary drama archive", ) or '''[[AKDA]]'''.
+He is the founder of ''inter alia'', the '''[[African Film and Drama Academy]]''' ('''[[AFDA]]'''), a training institution for scriptwriters and playwrights, focusing on commercial work rather than literary work), the '''[[Afrikaanse Kontemporêre Drama Argief]]''' ("Afrikaans contemporary drama archive", ) or '''[[AKDA]]''' - a digital library of playtexts.
 Is also the CEO of [[Deon Opperman Productions]] (Pty) Ltd and the director and head writer for [[Overberg Productions]] (Pty) Ltd.

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 ==Projects in management, education and archival services==
-He is the founder of ''inter alia'', the ([[AFDA]], a training institution for scriptwriters and playwrights, focussing on commercial work rather than literary work), the [[Afrikaanse Kontemporêre Drama Argief]] ("Afrikaans contemporary drama archive", ) or [[AKDA]].
+He is the founder of ''inter alia'', the '''[[Afrikaanse Drama Akademie]]''' ('''[[AFDA]]'''), a training institution for scriptwriters and playwrights, focussing on commercial work rather than literary work), the '''[[Afrikaanse Kontemporêre Drama Argief]]''' ("Afrikaans contemporary drama archive", ) or '''[[AKDA]]'''.
 Is also the CEO of [[Deon Opperman Productions]] (Pty) Ltd and the director and head writer for [[Overberg Productions]] (Pty) Ltd.
 =Awards and recognition=

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 : ''[[An Indian Summer]]'', ''[[Ah Men!]]'' (12 theatre sketches), ''[[Stille Nag]]''
-: ''[[Playboys]]'',
+: ''[[Playboys]]'', ''[[Dear Mrs Steyn]]''
 : ''[[Women in the Wings]]''
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 : ''[[Die Skandaal 2]]''  (farce: co-written with [[Lizz Meiring]] and  [[Hannes Muller]])
-: ''[[Magspel]]'', ''[[Sex, Lies and Leopard Crawl]]'' and ''[[Playboyz]]''  (complete rewrite of earlier play with [[Garth Holmes]], 1999), ''[[Dear Mrs Steyn]]''
+: ''[[Magspel]]'', ''[[Sex, Lies and Leopard Crawl]]'' and ''[[Playboyz]]''  (complete rewrite of earlier play with [[Garth Holmes]], 1999)
 : ''[[Whore]]''  (one-woman play)

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 : ''[[Die Skandaal 2]]''  (farce: co-written with [[Lizz Meiring]] and  [[Hannes Muller]])
-: ''[[Magspel]]'', ''[[Sex, Lies and Leopard Crawl]]'' and ''[[Playboyz]]''  (complete rewrite of earlier play with [[Garth Holmes]], 1999)
+: ''[[Magspel]]'', ''[[Sex, Lies and Leopard Crawl]]'' and ''[[Playboyz]]''  (complete rewrite of earlier play with [[Garth Holmes]], 1999), ''[[Dear Mrs Steyn]]''
 : ''[[Whore]]''  (one-woman play)

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 =Biography=
-[[Deon Opperman]] was born in 1962 in Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape and raised in East London. He matriculated from Selborne College in 1979. After serving two years’ national service (1980 & 1981), he enrolled at [[Rhodes University]] for a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Speech and Drama (Acting) and English, with a second in [[Afrikaans-Nederlands]]
+[[Deon Opperman]] was born in 1962 in Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape and raised in East London. He matriculated from Selborne College in 1979.
 While still an undergraduate at Rhodes he wrote his first two [[Afrikaans]] plays, ''[[Môre is ‘n Lang Dag]]'', with which he made a dramatic appearance on the theatrical scene at the very first [[ATKV Kampustoneel]] playwriting festival in Pretoria in 1983. There his ready participation in debates and his frank dismissal of the work of some established writers (e.g. [[Chris Barnard]]'s rather belaboured ''[[Bloed]]'', which had opened the weeklong festival) initially seemed to alienate many of the older members of the audience, until the [[Rhodes University Drama Department]]'s performance of Opperman's superb debut work, directed, designed and performed in by the playwright, stunned them into awed silence, followed by enthusiastic acclaim. The play was next performed at the [[Market Theatre]], in Johannesburg in 1984 and was followed by another serious [[Afrikaans]] play (''[[Die Teken]]'') and various other works. An articulate and passionate theatre theorist and practitioner, Opperman was soon being hailed as a genius and in many respects the spokesperson for the new generation of younger [[Afrikaans]] dramatists.
 Upon graduating from Rhodes University in 1984 he was offered a position as actor and literary advisor with the then [[Performing Arts Council of the Orange Free State]], where he worked for two years (1985-1986) before resigning in protest against the censorship of his play, ''[[A Perfect Vehicle]]''.
 saw Opperman move to Johannesburg, where he continued writing, directing and producing  for theatre. In this time he also made his first foray into television with the adaptation of his play, ''[[Môre is 'n Lang Dag]]'', for the [[SABC]], on whose platform it was aired as a movie of the week.
-In November 1990 Opperman was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and was accepted by both the University of California: Los Angeles and Northwestern University, Chicago to their Masters Programs in Directing for Film. Opperman accepted the UCLA offer, but after a few weeks on the program there he withdrew and transferred to Northwestern University, where he completed the Masters Program in 1993.
+Upon returning to South Africa in December 1993 following the completion of his Masters degree in the USA, Opperman accepted a contract with the [[SABC]] as writer and director of a number of television drama series.
 Opperman terminated his contract with the [[SABC]] in 1996 to co-found [[AFDA]] (the acronym for the [[African Film and Drama Academy]], though formally registered as the [[South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance]]), where he served as Head of the Theatre Department and Director of Finance and Adminstration until the end of 2003.

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	Opperman terminated his contract with the [[SABC]] in 1996 to co-found [[AFDA]] (the acronym for the [[African Film and Drama Academy]], though formally registered as the [[South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance]]), where he served as Head of the Theatre Department and Director of Finance and Adminstration until the end of 2003.		Opperman terminated his contract with the [[SABC]] in 1996 to co-found [[AFDA]] (the acronym for the [[African Film and Drama Academy]], though formally registered as the [[South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance]]), where he served as Head of the Theatre Department and Director of Finance and Adminstration until the end of 2003.
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		+	In 1998, he established the [[New Wave Theatre Group]] ([[NWTG]]), an independent theatre company and a home for [[SAFTDA]] alumni to stage their first professional productions in their own theatre in Milpark, Johannesburg before doing the circuit of the arts festivals and graduating into the arena of professional theatre.

	While at [[AFDA]], Opperman enrolled for a part-time Master of Business Administration degree at Wits Business School in 2002, graduating in 2006.		While at [[AFDA]], Opperman enrolled for a part-time Master of Business Administration degree at Wits Business School in 2002, graduating in 2006.

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 : ''[[My Sarie Marais]]''
-: ''[[Shaka]]'' (musical, co-written with [[Sean Else]] and [[Samson Khumalo]]) and ''[[Jock of the Bushveld]]'' (musical, based on the book, co-written with [[Sean Else]])
+: ''[[Shaka Zulu - The Musical]]'' (musical, co-written with [[Sean Else]] and [[Samson Khumalo]]) and ''[[Jock of the Bushveld]]'' (musical, based on the book, co-written with [[Sean Else]])
 : ''[[Binnekamer]]'' (cabaret, written for [[Amanda Strydom]]), ''[[Aantrekkingskrag]]'' with [[Franci Swanepoel]] and [[Andre Odendaal[[ and ''[[Tree Aan]]'' (musical)

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 ''[[Jock of the Bushveld]]''   ([[Johannesburg Civic]] [[Nelson Mandela Theatre]], 2010)
-''[[Shaka Zulu]]'' ([[State Theatre Drama]] 2010)
+''[[Shaka Zulu - The Musical]]'' ([[State Theatre Drama]] 2010)
 ''[[Tree Aan]]'' ([[State Theatre Drama]] and [[State Theatre Opera]] 2011)

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	''[[From Midnight to Morning]]'' programme notes, 1984.		''[[From Midnight to Morning]]'' programme notes, 1984.
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		+	[[Krit]], 2 April 1996.

	[[ESAT Bibliography Tra-Tz\|Tucker]], 1997.		[[ESAT Bibliography Tra-Tz\|Tucker]], 1997.