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-COETZEE, Greig (11 March 1967-) Actor, director and playwright.
+'''Greig Coetzee'''. (11 March 1967-). Actor, director and playwright.
 == Biography ==
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 === Training ===
 Trained at the University of Natal and obtained a B.A. (Zulu and Drama) and Higher Education Diploma (1985-89), during which time he was involved with amateur township theatre and student protest theatre.
 === Career ===
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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
-He was involved in a total of thirteen productions in the period 1995-2002, eleven of which he wrote or co-wrote. His plays include the enormously successful ''[[White Men with Weapons]]'' (winning more than 21 international and national awards), ''[[The Blue Period of Milton van der Spuy]]'' (1998), ''[[Solomon's Pride]]'' (1998, co-written with [[Bheki Mkhwane]]), ''[[An Outpost of Progress]]'' (2000, a commissioned work for the Internationale Nieuwe Scène in Antwerp, based on a story by Joseph Conrad), ''[[Breasts]]'' (2001) and ''[[Seeing Red]]'' (2001), ''[[Johnny Boskak is Feeling Funny]]'', ''[[Happy Natives]]''. The plays have been performed widely abroad, including award-winning performances at the Edinburgh Festival, and  Co-wrote and directed , with [[Greig Morris]], ''[[Blood Orange]]'' (2006)'
+He was involved in a total of thirteen productions in the period 1995-2002, eleven of which he wrote or co-wrote. His plays include the enormously successful ''[[White Men with Weapons]]'' (winning more than 21 international and national awards), ''[[The Blue Period of Milton van der Spuy]]'' (1998), ''[[Solomon's Pride]]'' (1998, co-written with [[Bheki Mkhwane]]), ''[[An Outpost of Progress]]'' (2000, a commissioned work for the Internationale Nieuwe Scène in Antwerp, based on a story by Joseph Conrad), ''[[Breasts]]'' (2001) and ''[[Seeing Red]]'' (2001), ''[[Johnny Boskak is Feeling Funny]]'', ''[[Happy Natives]]''. The plays have been performed widely abroad, including award-winning performances at the Edinburgh Festival, and  Co-wrote and directed , with [[Greig Morris]], ''[[Blood Orange]]'' (2006).
 == Awards, etc ==
 Coetzee has received numerous local and international awards for writing, directing and acting. His play ''[[White Men with Weapons]]'' alone won more than 21 international and national awards.
 == Sources ==
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 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
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	+	COETZEE, Greig (11 March 1967-) Actor, director and playwright. Trained at the University of Natal and obtained a B.A. (Zulu and Drama) and Higher Education Diploma (1985-89), during which time he was involved with amateur township theatre and student protest theatre. After a year in the army (1990) became a teacher of drama at Pietermaritzburg Girls High School (1991-1995), where he directed 6 plays. Then he began a free-lance career as actor, director and writer, leaving teaching at the end of 1995. Was involved in a total of thirteen productions in the period 1995-2002, eleven of which he wrote or co-wrote. His plays include the enormously successful ''[[White Men with Weapons]]'' (winning more than 21 international and national awards), ''[[The Blue Period of Milton van der Spuy]]'' (1998), ''[[Solomon's Pride]]'' (1998, co-written with [[Bheki Mkhwane]]), ''[[An Outpost of Progress]]'' (2000, a commissioned work for the Internationale Nieuwe Scène in Antwerp, based on a story by Joseph Conrad), ''[[Breasts]]'' (2001) and ''[[Seeing Red]]'' (2001), ''[[Johnny Boskak is Feeling Funny]]'', ''[[Happy Natives]]''. The plays have been performed widely abroad, including award-winning performances at the Edinburgh Festival, and Coetzee has received numerous local and international awards for writing, directing and acting. Co-wrote and directed , with [[Greig Morris]], ''[[Blood Orange]]'' (2006)'

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-COETZEE, Greig (11 March 1967-) Actor, director and playwright. Trained at the University of Natal and obtained a B.A. (Zulu and Drama) and Higher Education Diploma (1985-89), during which time he was involved with amateur township theatre and student protest theatre. After a year in the army (1990) became a teacher of drama at Pietermaritzburg Girls High School (1991-1995), where he directed 6 plays. Then he began a free-lance career as actor, director and writer, leaving teaching at the end of 1995. Was involved in a total of thirteen productions in the period 1995-2002, eleven of which he wrote or co-wrote. His plays include the enormously successful ''[[White Men with Weapons]]'' (winning more than 21 international and national awards), ''[[The Blue Period of Milton van der Spuy]]'' (1998), ''[[Solomon's Pride]]'' (1998, co-written with [[Bheki Mkhwane]]), ''[[An Outpost of Progress]]'' (2000, a commissioned work for the Internationale Nieuwe Scène in Antwerp, based on a story by Joseph Conrad), ''[[Breasts]]'' (2001) and ''[[Seeing Red]]'' (2001), ''[[Johnny Boskak is Feeling Funny]]'', ''[[Happy Natives]]''. The plays have been performed widely abroad, including award-winning performances at the Edinburgh Festival, and Coetzee has received numerous local and international awards for writing, directing and acting. Co-wrote and directed , with [[Greig Morris]], ''[[Blood Orange]]'' (2006)'
+COETZEE, Greig (11 March 1967-) Actor, director and playwright.
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