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-[[Jane Taylor]] (1956-) is a writer, playwright and academic.
+[[Jane Taylor]] (1956-2023) is a writer, playwright and academic.
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 Born in South Africa on 19 April 1956
-She obtained a Ph.D in English from Northwestern University, Chicago, with a study on Restoration theatre and the new commodity markets. The recipient of various Rockefeller and Mellon Fellowships, she has for several years been a periodic Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and from 2000 to 2009 she held the Skye Chair of Dramatic Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand. In Fall 2011, she was Writer-in-Residence at Northwestern University. She currently holds the Wole Soyinka Chair in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds.
+She obtained a Ph.D in English from Northwestern University, Chicago, with a study on Restoration theatre and the new commodity markets. The recipient of various Rockefeller and Mellon Fellowships, she has for several years been a periodic Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and from 2000 to 2009 she held the Skye Chair of Dramatic Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand.
 She has in recent years also taken to writing novels and in 2006 she won the Olive Schreiner Prize for new fiction for her novel ''Of Wild Dogs"" .

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 She has, with composer [[Kevin Volans]], written a new piece of music theatre based on the work of Italo Svevo. Directed by the artist [[William Kentridge]], the production was commissioned by DOKUMENTA, 2002. This piece opened at the KunstenFest in Brussels in 2001.
-As part of a group of twelve playwrights commissioned to make create a version of ''[[Cardenio]]'', a lost play allegedly written by Shakespeare, she wrote ''[[After Cardenio]]'', which opened in Cape Town in August 2011.
+As part of a group of twelve playwrights commissioned to make create a version of ''[[Cardenio]]'', a lost play allegedly written by Shakespeare, she devised ''[[After Cardenio]]'', which opened in Cape Town in August 2011.
 == Awards ==

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 In 2001 she wrote the libretto for ''[[The Confessions of Zeno]]'' for Kentridge and Handspring.
 She has, with composer [[Kevin Volans]], written a new piece of music theatre based on the work of Italo Svevo. Directed by the artist [[William Kentridge]], the production was commissioned by DOKUMENTA, 2002. This piece opened at the KunstenFest in Brussels in 2001.
 == Awards ==

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 Born in South Africa on 19 April 1956
-She obtained a Ph.D in English from Northwestern University, Chicago, with a study on Restoration theatre and the new commodity markets.
+She obtained a Ph.D in English from Northwestern University, Chicago, with a study on Restoration theatre and the new commodity markets. The recipient of various Rockefeller and Mellon Fellowships, she has for several years been a periodic Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and from 2000 to 2009 she held the Skye Chair of Dramatic Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand. In Fall 2011, she was Writer-in-Residence at Northwestern University. She currently holds the Wole Soyinka Chair in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds.
-From 2000 to 2009 she was the Skye Chair of Dramatic Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand. In Fall 2011, she was Writer-in-Residence at Northwestern University. For several years she was a periodic Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago.held the Skye Chair of Dramatic Art at the [[University of the Witwatersrand]]. Taylor currently holds the Wole Soyinka Chair in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds.
+She has in recent years also taken to writing novels and in 2006 she won the Olive Schreiner Prize for new fiction for her novel ''Of Wild Dogs"" .
 == Contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance ==

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-[[Jane Taylor]] (1956-) is a lecturer, academic and playwright.
+[[Jane Taylor]] (1956-) is a writer, playwright and academic.
 == Biography ==
-Born on 19 April 1956
+Born in South Africa on 19 April 1956
 She obtained a Ph.D in English from Northwestern University, Chicago, with a study on Restoration theatre and the new commodity markets.
-Professor Jane Taylor held the Skye Chair of Dramatic Art at the [[University of the Witwatersrand]]. Taylor teaches film studies, with a particular emphasis on the thriller and psychoanalytic theory.
+From 2000 to 2009 she was the Skye Chair of Dramatic Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand. In Fall 2011, she was Writer-in-Residence at Northwestern University. For several years she was a periodic Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago.held the Skye Chair of Dramatic Art at the [[University of the Witwatersrand]]. Taylor currently holds the Wole Soyinka Chair in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds.
 She has won Rockefeller and Mellon Fellowships.
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 ===As cultural researcher===
-She has written widely on contemporary South African culture, and in 1987 she co-edited ''[[From South Africa]]'' with [[David Bunn]] (University of Chicago Press). In 1996 she curated "Fault Lines," an exhibition about issues of truth and reconciliation. In 1998, she curated "Holdings" Rethinking the Archive" (David Philip publishers, 2002). In 2009 she edited ''Handspring Puppet Company'' (David Krut Publications)
+She has written widely on contemporary South African culture, and in 1987 she co-edited ''[[From South Africa]]'' with [[David Bunn]] (University of Chicago Press).
-Author of an article called "Contemporary Collaborators I: Kentridge/Handspring/Taylor" in Middeke, Schnierer and Homann (2015).
+In 1996 she curated "Fault Lines," an exhibition about issues of truth and reconciliation.
 ===As playwright and theatre maker===
-In 1996 she wrote the play ''[[Ubu and the Truth Commission]]'' for the [[Handspring Puppet Company]]. She has, with composer [[Kevin Volans]], written a new piece of music theatre based on the work of Italo Svevo. Directed by the artist [[William Kentridge]], the production was commissioned by DOKUMENTA, 2002. This piece opened at the KunstenFest in Brussels in 2001. In 1999, Taylor directed [[Puccini]]'s ''[[La Boheme]]'' for the [[Spier Theatre Festival]] in Cape Town.
+In 1996 she wrote the play ''[[Ubu and the Truth Commission]]'' for the [[Handspring Puppet Company]].
 == Sources ==

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 She has written widely on contemporary South African culture, and in 1987 she co-edited ''[[From South Africa]]'' with [[David Bunn]] (University of Chicago Press). In 1996 she curated "Fault Lines," an exhibition about issues of truth and reconciliation. In 1998, she curated "Holdings" Rethinking the Archive" (David Philip publishers, 2002). In 2009 she edited ''Handspring Puppet Company'' (David Krut Publications)
-Author of an article called "Contemporary CollaboratorsI: Kentridge/Handspring/Taylor" in Middeke, Schnierer and Homann(2015).
+Author of an article called "Contemporary Collaborators I: Kentridge/Handspring/Taylor" in Middeke, Schnierer and Homann(2015).
 ===As playwright and theatre maker===