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 Besides her work in prose and her journalism, Davids has written and directed seven plays focused primarily on the life of women and families in South Africa, and intimately concerned with and connected to a re-imagining of the aesthetic and political possibilities of the post-apartheid South African landscape. Among them are ''[[Khumbula]]'' (1995), ''[[Doc's Wife]]'' (1999), ''[[The Butterfly and the Wog]]'' (2000), ''[[At her Feet]]'' (2002), ''[[The Littlest Warrior]]'' (2005), and ''[[Cissie]]'' (2008). Both ''[[At her Feet]]'' and ''[[Cissie]]'' have been published.
-Her play ''[[What Remains]]'', was performed at the 2017 [[National Arts Festival]] before moving to the [[Hiddingh Hall], Cape town.
+Her play ''[[What Remains]]'', was performed at the 2017 [[National Arts Festival]] before moving to the [[Hiddingh Hall]], Cape Town.
 == Awards, etc ==

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-'''Nadia Davids'''. (Cape Town, 1977-) Playwright, actress, stage director, journalist and scholar.
+'''Nadia Davids'''. (born in Cape Town, 1977-) Playwright, actress, stage director, journalist and scholar.
 == Biography ==
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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 Besides her work in prose and her journalism, Davids has written and directed seven plays focused primarily on the life of women and families in South Africa, and intimately concerned with and connected to a re-imagining of the aesthetic and political possibilities of the post-apartheid South African landscape. Among them are ''[[Khumbula]]'' (1995), ''[[Doc's Wife]]'' (1999), ''[[The Butterfly and the Wog]]'' (2000), ''[[At her Feet]]'' (2002), ''[[The Littlest Warrior]]'' (2005), and ''[[Cissie]]'' (2008). Both ''[[At her Feet]]'' and ''[[Cissie]]'' have been published.
 == Awards, etc ==
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 Various entries in the [[NELM]] catalogue.
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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	Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Davids].		Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Davids].
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		+	Various entries in the [[NELM]] catalogue.

	Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]		Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 == Biography ==
 === Training ===
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 In June 2008, Nadia achieved her PhD in Theatre at the University of Cape Town for a thesis which traces the performative connections between archive, exile, memory and loss through the experience of forced removals under apartheid in [[District Six]].
 === Career ===
 Between 2003 and 2004 she wrote a weekly column for the Cape Town based newspaper, ''The Argus'' and later she began to write a bi-monthly column for the New York-based publication ''The Brooklyn Rail''.
-She has lectured at UCT and NYU.
+She has lectured at UCT and NYU. She divides her time between home and New York City.
 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
-Among them are ''[[Khumbula]]'' (1995), ''[[Doc's Wife]]'' (1999), ''[[The Butterfly and the Wog]]'' (2000), ''[[At her Feet]]'' (2002), ''[[The Littlest Warrior]]'' (2005), and ''[[Cissie]]'' (2008). Both ''[[At her Feet]]'' and ''[[Cissie]]'' have been published.
+Besides her work in prose and her journalism, Davids has written and directed seven plays focused primarily on the life of women and families in South Africa, and intimately concerned with and connected to a re-imagining of the aesthetic and political possibilities of the post-apartheid South African landscape. Among them are ''[[Khumbula]]'' (1995), ''[[Doc's Wife]]'' (1999), ''[[The Butterfly and the Wog]]'' (2000), ''[[At her Feet]]'' (2002), ''[[The Littlest Warrior]]'' (2005), and ''[[Cissie]]'' (2008). Both ''[[At her Feet]]'' and ''[[Cissie]]'' have been published.
 == Awards, etc ==

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-DAVIDS, Nadia. (Cape Town, 1977-) Playwright, actress, stage director, journalist and scholar.  Having studied drama at the [[University of Cape Town Drama Department|University of Cape Town]] (UCT), Davids has gone on to become one of the most prominent of young writer-directors and theatre scholars in the country. Besides her work in prose and her journalism, Davids has written and directed seven plays focused primarily on the life of women and families in South Africa, and intimately concerned with and connected to a re-imagining of the aesthetic and political possibilities of the post-apartheid South African landscape. Among them are ''[[Khumbula]]'' (1995), ''[[Doc's Wife]]'' (1999), ''[[The Butterfly and the Wog]]'' (2000), ''[[At her Feet]]'' (2002), ''[[The Littlest Warrior]]'' (2005), and ''[[Cissie]]'' (2008). Both ''[[At her Feet]]'' and ''[[Cissie]]'' have been published, while the best known of works, ''[[At her Feet]]'', was nominated for the Noma award for best book published in Africa and has been studied as a set work at schools and universities in South Africa and North America since 2004. Between 2003 and 2004 she wrote a weekly column for the Cape Town based newspaper, ''The Argus'' and later she began to write a bi-monthly column for the New York-based publication ''The Brooklyn Rail''.  In June 2008, Nadia achieved her PhD in Theatre at the University of Cape Town for a thesis which traces the performative connections between archive, exile, memory and loss through the experience of forced removals under apartheid in [[District Six]]. She has received two A.W. Mellon Fellowships for her research and has been made a visiting scholar at University of California at Berkeley (2001) and New York University (NYU,  2004-2006). She has lectured at UCT and NYU. She divides her time between home and New York City. In 2006, she was a finalist in the South Africa Pen Award judged by Nobel Prize laureate J.M. Coetzee for her short story ''Safe Home''. Her work has been produced, published and studied in Africa, Europe and North America and she has been selected as one of ten women playwrights world wide to participate in the Women's Project Playwright’s Lab in New York (2008-2010).
+'''Nadia Davids'''. (Cape Town, 1977-) Playwright, actress, stage director, journalist and scholar.
-Return to [[ESAT Personalities D]]
+=== Youth ===
 Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Personalities|South African Theatre Personalities]]
 Return to [[Main Page]]

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−	DAVIDS, Nadia. (Cape Town, 1977-) Playwright, actress, stage director, journalist and scholar. Having studied drama at the [[[[University of Cape Town Drama Department\|University of Cape Town]] (UCT), Davids has gone on to become one of the most prominent of young writer-directors and theatre scholars in the country. Besides her work in prose and her journalism, Davids has written and directed seven plays focused primarily on the life of women and families in South Africa, and intimately concerned with and connected to a re-imagining of the aesthetic and political possibilities of the post-apartheid South African landscape. Among them are ''[[Khumbula]]'' (1995), ''[[~~Doc’s~~ Wife]]'' (1999), ''[[The Butterfly and the Wog]]'' (2000), ''[[At her Feet]]'' (2002), ''[[The Littlest Warrior]]'' (2005), and ''[[Cissie]]'' (2008). Both ''[[At her Feet]]'' and ''[[Cissie]]'' have been published, while the best known of works, ''[[At her Feet]]'', was nominated for the Noma award for best book published in Africa and has been studied as a set work at schools and universities in South Africa and North America since 2004. Between 2003 and 2004 she wrote a weekly column for the Cape Town based newspaper, ''The Argus'' and later she began to write a bi-monthly column for the New York-based publication ''The Brooklyn Rail''. In June 2008, Nadia achieved her PhD in Theatre at the University of Cape Town for a thesis which traces the performative connections between archive, exile, memory and loss through the experience of forced removals under apartheid in [[District Six]]. She has received two A.W. Mellon Fellowships for her research and has been made a visiting scholar at University of California at Berkeley (2001) and New York University (NYU, 2004-2006). She has lectured at UCT and NYU. She divides her time between home and New York City. In 2006, she was a finalist in the South Africa Pen Award judged by Nobel Prize laureate J.M. Coetzee for her short story ''Safe Home''. Her work has been produced, published and studied in Africa, Europe and North America and she has been selected as one of ten women playwrights world wide to participate in the Women's Project Playwright’s Lab in New York (2008-2010).	+	DAVIDS, Nadia. (Cape Town, 1977-) Playwright, actress, stage director, journalist and scholar. Having studied drama at the [[University of Cape Town Drama Department\|University of Cape Town]] (UCT), Davids has gone on to become one of the most prominent of young writer-directors and theatre scholars in the country. Besides her work in prose and her journalism, Davids has written and directed seven plays focused primarily on the life of women and families in South Africa, and intimately concerned with and connected to a re-imagining of the aesthetic and political possibilities of the post-apartheid South African landscape. Among them are ''[[Khumbula]]'' (1995), ''[[Doc's Wife]]'' (1999), ''[[The Butterfly and the Wog]]'' (2000), ''[[At her Feet]]'' (2002), ''[[The Littlest Warrior]]'' (2005), and ''[[Cissie]]'' (2008). Both ''[[At her Feet]]'' and ''[[Cissie]]'' have been published, while the best known of works, ''[[At her Feet]]'', was nominated for the Noma award for best book published in Africa and has been studied as a set work at schools and universities in South Africa and North America since 2004. Between 2003 and 2004 she wrote a weekly column for the Cape Town based newspaper, ''The Argus'' and later she began to write a bi-monthly column for the New York-based publication ''The Brooklyn Rail''. In June 2008, Nadia achieved her PhD in Theatre at the University of Cape Town for a thesis which traces the performative connections between archive, exile, memory and loss through the experience of forced removals under apartheid in [[District Six]]. She has received two A.W. Mellon Fellowships for her research and has been made a visiting scholar at University of California at Berkeley (2001) and New York University (NYU, 2004-2006). She has lectured at UCT and NYU. She divides her time between home and New York City. In 2006, she was a finalist in the South Africa Pen Award judged by Nobel Prize laureate J.M. Coetzee for her short story ''Safe Home''. Her work has been produced, published and studied in Africa, Europe and North America and she has been selected as one of ten women playwrights world wide to participate in the Women's Project Playwright’s Lab in New York (2008-2010).
	[[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards\|Fleur du Cap]] "Rosalie van der Gucht"--2003 ''[[At her Feet]]''. Nominated for best new South African play 2008 -Cissie. http://www.litnet.co.za. (2008-06-17), http://www.nadiadavids.com/ ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Davids		[[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards\|Fleur du Cap]] "Rosalie van der Gucht"--2003 ''[[At her Feet]]''. Nominated for best new South African play 2008 -Cissie. http://www.litnet.co.za. (2008-06-17), http://www.nadiadavids.com/ ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Davids

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−	DAVIDS, Nadia. (Cape Town, 1977-) Playwright, actress, stage director, journalist and scholar. Having studied drama at the [[University of Cape Town]] (UCT), Davids has gone on to become one of the most prominent of young writer-directors and theatre scholars in the country. Besides her work in prose and her journalism, Davids has written and directed seven plays focused primarily on the life of women and families in South Africa, and intimately concerned with and connected to a re-imagining of the aesthetic and political possibilities of the post-apartheid South African landscape. Among them are ''[[Khumbula]]'' (1995), ''[[Doc’s Wife]]'' (1999), ''[[The Butterfly and the Wog]]'' (2000), ''[[At her Feet]]'' (2002), ''[[The Littlest Warrior]]'' (2005), and ''[[Cissie]]'' (2008). Both ''[[At her Feet]]'' and ''[[Cissie]]'' have been published, while the best known of works, ''[[At her Feet]]'', was nominated for the Noma award for best book published in Africa and has been studied as a set work at schools and universities in South Africa and North America since 2004. Between 2003 and 2004 she wrote a weekly column for the Cape Town based newspaper, ''The Argus'' and later she began to write a bi-monthly column for the New York-based publication ''The Brooklyn Rail''. In June 2008, Nadia achieved her PhD in Theatre at the University of Cape Town for a thesis which traces the performative connections between archive, exile, memory and loss through the experience of forced removals under apartheid in [[District Six]]. She has received two A.W. Mellon Fellowships for her research and has been made a visiting scholar at University of California at Berkeley (2001) and New York University (NYU, 2004-2006). She has lectured at UCT and NYU. She divides her time between home and New York City. In 2006, she was a finalist in the South Africa Pen Award judged by Nobel Prize laureate J.M. Coetzee for her short story ''Safe Home''. Her work has been produced, published and studied in Africa, Europe and North America and she has been selected as one of ten women playwrights world wide to participate in the Women's Project Playwright’s Lab in New York (2008-2010).	+	DAVIDS, Nadia. (Cape Town, 1977-) Playwright, actress, stage director, journalist and scholar. Having studied drama at the [[[[University of Cape Town Drama Department\|University of Cape Town]] (UCT), Davids has gone on to become one of the most prominent of young writer-directors and theatre scholars in the country. Besides her work in prose and her journalism, Davids has written and directed seven plays focused primarily on the life of women and families in South Africa, and intimately concerned with and connected to a re-imagining of the aesthetic and political possibilities of the post-apartheid South African landscape. Among them are ''[[Khumbula]]'' (1995), ''[[Doc’s Wife]]'' (1999), ''[[The Butterfly and the Wog]]'' (2000), ''[[At her Feet]]'' (2002), ''[[The Littlest Warrior]]'' (2005), and ''[[Cissie]]'' (2008). Both ''[[At her Feet]]'' and ''[[Cissie]]'' have been published, while the best known of works, ''[[At her Feet]]'', was nominated for the Noma award for best book published in Africa and has been studied as a set work at schools and universities in South Africa and North America since 2004. Between 2003 and 2004 she wrote a weekly column for the Cape Town based newspaper, ''The Argus'' and later she began to write a bi-monthly column for the New York-based publication ''The Brooklyn Rail''. In June 2008, Nadia achieved her PhD in Theatre at the University of Cape Town for a thesis which traces the performative connections between archive, exile, memory and loss through the experience of forced removals under apartheid in [[District Six]]. She has received two A.W. Mellon Fellowships for her research and has been made a visiting scholar at University of California at Berkeley (2001) and New York University (NYU, 2004-2006). She has lectured at UCT and NYU. She divides her time between home and New York City. In 2006, she was a finalist in the South Africa Pen Award judged by Nobel Prize laureate J.M. Coetzee for her short story ''Safe Home''. Her work has been produced, published and studied in Africa, Europe and North America and she has been selected as one of ten women playwrights world wide to participate in the Women's Project Playwright’s Lab in New York (2008-2010).
−	[[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards\|Fleur du Cap]] "Rosalie van der ~~Gught~~"--2003 At ~~Her~~ Feet. Nominated for best new South African play 2008 -Cissie. http://www.litnet.co.za. (2008-06-17), http://www.nadiadavids.com/ ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Davids	+	[[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards\|Fleur du Cap]] "Rosalie van der Gucht"--2003 ''[[At her Feet]]''. Nominated for best new South African play 2008 -Cissie. http://www.litnet.co.za. (2008-06-17), http://www.nadiadavids.com/ ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Davids

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−	DAVIDS, Nadia. (Cape Town, 1977-) Playwright, actress, stage director, journalist and scholar. Having studied drama at the [[University of Cape Town]] (UCT), Davids has gone on to become one of the most prominent of young writer-directors and theatre scholars in the country. Besides her work in prose and her journalism, Davids has written and directed seven plays focused primarily on the life of women and families in South Africa, and intimately concerned with and connected to a re-imagining of the aesthetic and political possibilities of the post-apartheid South African landscape. Among them are ''[[Khumbula]]'' (1995), ''[[Doc’s Wife]]'' (1999), ''[[The Butterfly and the Wog]]'' (2000), ''[[At her Feet]]'' (2002), ''[[The Littlest Warrior]]'' (2005), and ''[[Cissie]]'' (2008). Both ''[[At her Feet]]'' and ''[[Cissie]]'' have been published, while the best known of works, ''[[At her Feet]]'', was nominated for the Noma award for best book published in Africa and has been studied as a set work at schools and universities in South Africa and North America since 2004. Between 2003 and 2004 she wrote a weekly column for the Cape Town based newspaper, ''The Argus'' and later she began to write a bi-monthly column for the New York-based publication ''The Brooklyn Rail''. In June 2008, Nadia achieved her PhD in Theatre at the University of Cape Town for a thesis which traces the performative connections between archive, exile, memory and loss through the experience of forced removals under apartheid in [[District Six]]. She has received two A.W. Mellon Fellowships for her research and has been made a visiting scholar at University of California at Berkeley (2001) and New York University (NYU, 2004-2006). She has lectured at UCT and NYU. She divides her time between home and New York City. In 2006, she was a finalist in the South Africa Pen Award judged by Nobel Prize laureate J.M. Coetzee for her short story ''Safe Home''. Her work has been produced, published and studied in Africa, Europe and North America and she has been selected as one of ten women playwrights world wide to participate in the Women's Project Playwright’s Lab in New York (2008-2010). Dear Temple Thanks so much for including me--very generous of you! One note--I don't act; haven't done since I was an undergrad. And Bethesda Moon and Mad Forest were written by Lara Bye and Carol Churchill respectively.	+	DAVIDS, Nadia. (Cape Town, 1977-) Playwright, actress, stage director, journalist and scholar. Having studied drama at the [[University of Cape Town]] (UCT), Davids has gone on to become one of the most prominent of young writer-directors and theatre scholars in the country. Besides her work in prose and her journalism, Davids has written and directed seven plays focused primarily on the life of women and families in South Africa, and intimately concerned with and connected to a re-imagining of the aesthetic and political possibilities of the post-apartheid South African landscape. Among them are ''[[Khumbula]]'' (1995), ''[[Doc’s Wife]]'' (1999), ''[[The Butterfly and the Wog]]'' (2000), ''[[At her Feet]]'' (2002), ''[[The Littlest Warrior]]'' (2005), and ''[[Cissie]]'' (2008). Both ''[[At her Feet]]'' and ''[[Cissie]]'' have been published, while the best known of works, ''[[At her Feet]]'', was nominated for the Noma award for best book published in Africa and has been studied as a set work at schools and universities in South Africa and North America since 2004. Between 2003 and 2004 she wrote a weekly column for the Cape Town based newspaper, ''The Argus'' and later she began to write a bi-monthly column for the New York-based publication ''The Brooklyn Rail''. In June 2008, Nadia achieved her PhD in Theatre at the University of Cape Town for a thesis which traces the performative connections between archive, exile, memory and loss through the experience of forced removals under apartheid in [[District Six]]. She has received two A.W. Mellon Fellowships for her research and has been made a visiting scholar at University of California at Berkeley (2001) and New York University (NYU, 2004-2006). She has lectured at UCT and NYU. She divides her time between home and New York City. In 2006, she was a finalist in the South Africa Pen Award judged by Nobel Prize laureate J.M. Coetzee for her short story ''Safe Home''. Her work has been produced, published and studied in Africa, Europe and North America and she has been selected as one of ten women playwrights world wide to participate in the Women's Project Playwright’s Lab in New York (2008-2010).
−	~~Don't know if you want to include the~~ Fleur ~~de cap stuff?~~ "Rosalie van der Gught"--2003 At Her Feet. Nominated for best new South African play 2008 -Cissie. Again, many thanks and hope you are keeping well. I found the article at NYU-but have been unable to download it. If I could get a pdf it would be great--should I just mail Petrus du Preez directly? Nadia xxRef http://www.litnet.co.za. (2008-06-17), http://www.nadiadavids.com/ ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Davids DAVIDS, Nadia. (19-) Playwright, director. academic. Studied drama at the University of Cape Town, In 2005-6 became a A.W. Mellon Fellow, working on her PhD in Drama at the University of Cape Town. She has written four plays, including At Her Feet (Performed 2003, published 2006), , *. .	+	[[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards\|Fleur du Cap]] "Rosalie van der Gught"--2003 At Her Feet. Nominated for best new South African play 2008 -Cissie. http://www.litnet.co.za. (2008-06-17), http://www.nadiadavids.com/ ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Davids

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−	DAVIDS, Nadia. (Cape Town, 1977-) Playwright, actress, stage director, journalist and scholar. Having studied drama at the [[University of Cape Town]] (UCT), Davids has gone on to become one of the most prominent of young writer-directors and theatre scholars in the country. Besides her work in prose and her journalism, Davids has written and directed seven plays focused primarily on the life of women and families in South Africa, and intimately concerned with and connected to a re-imagining of the aesthetic and political possibilities of the post-apartheid South African landscape. Among them are ''[[Khumbula]]'' (1995), ''[[Doc’s Wife]]'' (1999), ''[[The Butterfly and the Wog]]'' (2000), ''[[At her Feet]]'' (2002), ''[[The Littlest Warrior]]'' (2005), and ''[[Cissie]]'' (2008). Both ''[[At her Feet]]'' and ''[[Cissie]]'' have been published, while the best known of works, ''[[At ~~Her~~ Feet]]'', was nominated for the Noma award for best book published in Africa and has been studied as a set work at schools and universities in South Africa and North America since 2004. Between 2003 and 2004 she wrote a weekly column for the Cape Town based newspaper, ''The Argus'' and later she began to write a bi-monthly column for the New York-based publication ''The Brooklyn Rail''. In June 2008, Nadia achieved her PhD in Theatre at the University of Cape Town for a thesis which traces the performative connections between archive, exile, memory and loss through the experience of forced removals under apartheid in [[District Six]]. She has received two A.W. Mellon Fellowships for her research and has been made a visiting scholar at University of California at Berkeley (2001) and New York University (NYU, 2004-2006). She has lectured at UCT and NYU. She divides her time between home and New York City. In 2006, she was a finalist in the South Africa Pen Award judged by Nobel Prize laureate J.M. Coetzee for her short story ''Safe Home''. Her work has been produced, published and studied in Africa, Europe and North America and she has been selected as one of ten women playwrights world wide to participate in the Women's Project Playwright’s Lab in New York (2008-2010). Dear Temple Thanks so much for including me--very generous of you! One note--I don't act; haven't done since I was an undergrad. And Bethesda Moon and Mad Forest were written by Lara Bye and Carol Churchill respectively.	+	DAVIDS, Nadia. (Cape Town, 1977-) Playwright, actress, stage director, journalist and scholar. Having studied drama at the [[University of Cape Town]] (UCT), Davids has gone on to become one of the most prominent of young writer-directors and theatre scholars in the country. Besides her work in prose and her journalism, Davids has written and directed seven plays focused primarily on the life of women and families in South Africa, and intimately concerned with and connected to a re-imagining of the aesthetic and political possibilities of the post-apartheid South African landscape. Among them are ''[[Khumbula]]'' (1995), ''[[Doc’s Wife]]'' (1999), ''[[The Butterfly and the Wog]]'' (2000), ''[[At her Feet]]'' (2002), ''[[The Littlest Warrior]]'' (2005), and ''[[Cissie]]'' (2008). Both ''[[At her Feet]]'' and ''[[Cissie]]'' have been published, while the best known of works, ''[[At her Feet]]'', was nominated for the Noma award for best book published in Africa and has been studied as a set work at schools and universities in South Africa and North America since 2004. Between 2003 and 2004 she wrote a weekly column for the Cape Town based newspaper, ''The Argus'' and later she began to write a bi-monthly column for the New York-based publication ''The Brooklyn Rail''. In June 2008, Nadia achieved her PhD in Theatre at the University of Cape Town for a thesis which traces the performative connections between archive, exile, memory and loss through the experience of forced removals under apartheid in [[District Six]]. She has received two A.W. Mellon Fellowships for her research and has been made a visiting scholar at University of California at Berkeley (2001) and New York University (NYU, 2004-2006). She has lectured at UCT and NYU. She divides her time between home and New York City. In 2006, she was a finalist in the South Africa Pen Award judged by Nobel Prize laureate J.M. Coetzee for her short story ''Safe Home''. Her work has been produced, published and studied in Africa, Europe and North America and she has been selected as one of ten women playwrights world wide to participate in the Women's Project Playwright’s Lab in New York (2008-2010). Dear Temple Thanks so much for including me--very generous of you! One note--I don't act; haven't done since I was an undergrad. And Bethesda Moon and Mad Forest were written by Lara Bye and Carol Churchill respectively.
	Don't know if you want to include the Fleur de cap stuff? "Rosalie van der Gught"--2003 At Her Feet. Nominated for best new South African play 2008 -Cissie. Again, many thanks and hope you are keeping well. I found the article at NYU-but have been unable to download it. If I could get a pdf it would be great--should I just mail Petrus du Preez directly? Nadia xxRef http://www.litnet.co.za. (2008-06-17), http://www.nadiadavids.com/ ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Davids DAVIDS, Nadia. (19-) Playwright, director. academic. Studied drama at the University of Cape Town, In 2005-6 became a A.W. Mellon Fellow, working on her PhD in Drama at the University of Cape Town. She has written four plays, including At Her Feet (Performed 2003, published 2006), , *. .		Don't know if you want to include the Fleur de cap stuff? "Rosalie van der Gught"--2003 At Her Feet. Nominated for best new South African play 2008 -Cissie. Again, many thanks and hope you are keeping well. I found the article at NYU-but have been unable to download it. If I could get a pdf it would be great--should I just mail Petrus du Preez directly? Nadia xxRef http://www.litnet.co.za. (2008-06-17), http://www.nadiadavids.com/ ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Davids DAVIDS, Nadia. (19-) Playwright, director. academic. Studied drama at the University of Cape Town, In 2005-6 became a A.W. Mellon Fellow, working on her PhD in Drama at the University of Cape Town. She has written four plays, including At Her Feet (Performed 2003, published 2006), , *. .