Gisele Turner

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Gisele Turner is a teacher, performer, director and playwright.

Also found as Gisele Therese Turner or Gisèle Thérèse Turner

Biography

Born in England to French parents Gisele Turner was brought up in Zimbabwe and has lived in Natal, South Africa since 1973.

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

In the 1980s she performed in plays like How the Other Half Loves, Franky and Raggett, Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and directed I Have No! in 1984.

Author of Woof Woof (2011), eLimboland (Chosen as best stage play script at the Writers' Guild of SA Muse Awards, 2014).

Began a drama studio called Gisele Turner’s Drama Studio in Escombe, KwaZulu-Natal, where she focuses on speech, drama and creative play, offering morning classes for home school learners, afternoon classes and individual lessons.

Sources

SACD 1980/81.

https://writersguildsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2013-wgsa-muse-awards-winners-and-finalists-1.pdf

http://news.artsmart.co.za/2014/02/gisele-turners-drama-studio.html

https://www.writelocalplayglobal.org/playwrights/turner-gisele-south-africa.html

https://www.iol.co.za/entertainment/whats-on/in-limbo-and-in-search-of-secrets-1631307


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