Helena Kriel - Revision history

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 She was born and brought up in Johannesburg, she graduated with a BA Honours in Drama from the [[Witwatersrand University]], as the top actress and overall top directing student of her year.
-Six weeks after the success of her play , she left for a writers’ programme hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles, and seven months later she won the prestigious Steven Spielberg Diane Thomas Award[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Thomas].for her first screenplay, ''[[Virtuoso]]'', and stayed on in Hollywood with her husband.
+Six weeks after the success of her play  ''[[I Can't Wait to Tie You to the Sofa]]'', she left for a writers’ programme hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles, and seven months later she won the prestigious Steven Spielberg Diane Thomas Award[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Thomas].for her first screenplay, ''[[Virtuoso]]'', and stayed on in Hollywood.
-She wrote the book  ''[[Meditating with Rhinos]]'' (2020) after her career stagnated during the in 2007 writer's strike and marriage fell apart.
+She later wrote the book  ''[[Meditating with Rhinos]]'' (2020) after her career had stagnated during the in 2007 writer's strike and her marriage had fallen apart.
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 She wrote or co-wrote the plays ''[[Pigs on Passion]]'', ''[[Arachnid]]'', ''[[K+M+B]]'', ''[[I Can't Wait to Tie You to the Sofa]]'' (Arena, Windybrow, March 1990);
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 She co-wrote the screenplays for ''[[Tsotsi]]'', ''[[Skin]]'' (2008), ''[[One Night]]'' (2001) and wrote ''[[Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love]]'' (1996)

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 She was born and brought up in Johannesburg, she graduated with a BA Honours in Drama from the [[Witwatersrand University]], as the top actress and overall top directing student of her year.
-Six weeks after the success of her play , she left for a writers’ programme hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles, and seven months later she won the prestigious Steven Spielberg Diane Thomas Award for her first screenplay, ''[[Virtuoso]]'', and stayed on in Hollywood with her husband.
+Six weeks after the success of her play , she left for a writers’ programme hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles, and seven months later she won the prestigious Steven Spielberg Diane Thomas Award[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Thomas].for her first screenplay, ''[[Virtuoso]]'', and stayed on in Hollywood with her husband.
 She wrote the book  ''[[Meditating with Rhinos]]'' (2020) after her career stagnated during the in 2007 writer's strike and marriage fell apart.

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	She acted in ''[[Pigs on Passion]]'', ''[[Beirut]]'', ''[[Rising Storm]]'' (1988), ''[[The Head Hunter]]'' (1989)		She acted in ''[[Pigs on Passion]]'', ''[[Beirut]]'', ''[[Rising Storm]]'' (1988), ''[[The Head Hunter]]'' (1989)
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−	~~She was the winner in 1991 of the Diane Thomas Screen-writing Award [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Thomas].~~

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 Six weeks after the success of her play , she left for a writers’ programme hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles, and seven months later she won the prestigious Steven Spielberg Diane Thomas Award for her first screenplay, ''[[Virtuoso]]'', and stayed on in Hollywood with her husband.
-She wrote the book  ''[[Meditating with Rhinos]]''
+She wrote the book  ''[[Meditating with Rhinos]]'' (2020) after her career stagnated during the in 2007 writer's strike and marriage fell apart.
 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==

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 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0471247/
-Karel van der Vyver. 2021. "Helena Kriel on what sparked the writing of her book, ‘Meditating with Rhinos’" In the ''[[Daily Maverick]]'' 6 January, 2021[https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-01-06-helena-kriel-on-what-sparked-the-writing-of-her-book-meditating-with-rhinos/]
+Karel van der Vyver. 2021. "Helena Kriel on what sparked the writing of her book, ‘Meditating with Rhinos’" In the ''[[Daily Maverick]]'' 6 January[https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-01-06-helena-kriel-on-what-sparked-the-writing-of-her-book-meditating-with-rhinos/]
 Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]

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		+	Karel van der Vyver. 2021. "Helena Kriel on what sparked the writing of her book, ‘Meditating with Rhinos’" In ''[[The Daily Maverick]]'' 6 January, 2021[https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-01-06-helena-kriel-on-what-sparked-the-writing-of-her-book-meditating-with-rhinos/]

	Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]		Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]

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	She was born and brought up in Johannesburg, she graduated with a BA Honours in Drama from the [[Witwatersrand University]], as the top actress and overall top directing student of her year.		She was born and brought up in Johannesburg, she graduated with a BA Honours in Drama from the [[Witwatersrand University]], as the top actress and overall top directing student of her year.
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		+	Six weeks after the success of her play , she left for a writers’ programme hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles, and seven months later she won the prestigious Steven Spielberg Diane Thomas Award for her first screenplay, ''[[Virtuoso]]'', and stayed on in Hollywood with her husband.
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		+	She wrote the book ''[[Meditating with Rhinos]]''

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