Difference between revisions of "Tonya Koenderman"

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=== Training ===
 
=== Training ===
 
 
Tonya graduated from Wits Drama School.
 
Tonya graduated from Wits Drama School.
  
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==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 
She launched into her acting career with a singing/dancing and understudy role in [[Janice Honeyman]]'s ''[[Jack and the Beanstalk]]'', followed by a role in [[PACT]]'s school tour of ''People We Call Parents''.
 
She launched into her acting career with a singing/dancing and understudy role in [[Janice Honeyman]]'s ''[[Jack and the Beanstalk]]'', followed by a role in [[PACT]]'s school tour of ''People We Call Parents''.
 
  
 
She starred in ''[[The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾]]'' and in [[Kevin Feather]]’s ''[[The Doowah Girls]]'' at the [[Richard Haines Theatre]] in 1993.
 
She starred in ''[[The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾]]'' and in [[Kevin Feather]]’s ''[[The Doowah Girls]]'' at the [[Richard Haines Theatre]] in 1993.
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== Awards, etc ==
 
== Awards, etc ==
Nominee Durban Theatre Awards 2007  Musical theatre: Director:; Lisa Bobbert & Tonya Koenderman  
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Nominee Durban Theatre Awards 2007  Musical theatre: Director:; Lisa Bobbert & Tonya Koenderman ''Return of the Convent Girls''.
 
 
[[Return of the Convent Girls]]'',
 
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 10:35, 8 November 2016

Tonya Koenderman (19*-) Singer, dancer, cabaret artist.


Biography

Youth

Training

Tonya graduated from Wits Drama School.

Career

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

She launched into her acting career with a singing/dancing and understudy role in Janice Honeyman's Jack and the Beanstalk, followed by a role in PACT's school tour of People We Call Parents.

She starred in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ and in Kevin Feather’s The Doowah Girls at the Richard Haines Theatre in 1993.

Her one-woman show Divas to a T at the Backstage Theatre at the Royal Hotel, Durban in 2000 was a tribute to the great ladies of song: Shirley Bassey, Miriam Makeba, etc.

Awards, etc

Nominee Durban Theatre Awards 2007 Musical theatre: Director:; Lisa Bobbert & Tonya Koenderman Return of the Convent Girls.

Sources

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ programme notes, circa 1990.

Tucker, 1997. 526.

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