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On 1 May 2008 he became Festival Director of the [[Grahamstwon Festival|National Arts Festival]] on May 1, 2008 approximately twenty years after he staged his first production at the Festival. | On 1 May 2008 he became Festival Director of the [[Grahamstwon Festival|National Arts Festival]] on May 1, 2008 approximately twenty years after he staged his first production at the Festival. | ||
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Author of a large number of plays, a number of them early, unpublished one-act plays, which tend to deal with specific social issues, a number with strong political content. These include ''[[Where Two Worlds Drift Apart]]'', which received the [[Adam Leslie]] Award at the 1986 [[Amfest]] competition in Johannesburg, and ''[[Child of Kathrada]]'', ''[[Conversations with Dying Comrades]]'', ''[[Indian Coffee]]'', ''[[mzwandile’s Guilt]]'', ''[[Shantytown Christmas]]'', ''[[Thank God It’s a Boy]]''. Later professional work includes ''[[Purdah]]'' (1993), ''[[Leather Boykies]]'' (1994), ''[[Cheaper Than Roses]]'' (1995), *. Some of his work has been is included in published collections. | Author of a large number of plays, a number of them early, unpublished one-act plays, which tend to deal with specific social issues, a number with strong political content. These include ''[[Where Two Worlds Drift Apart]]'', which received the [[Adam Leslie]] Award at the 1986 [[Amfest]] competition in Johannesburg, and ''[[Child of Kathrada]]'', ''[[Conversations with Dying Comrades]]'', ''[[Indian Coffee]]'', ''[[mzwandile’s Guilt]]'', ''[[Shantytown Christmas]]'', ''[[Thank God It’s a Boy]]''. Later professional work includes ''[[Purdah]]'' (1993), ''[[Leather Boykies]]'' (1994), ''[[Cheaper Than Roses]]'' (1995), *. Some of his work has been is included in published collections. | ||
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(19*-) Playwright, director, administrator. (Sometimes written Ismael Mohamed*
Contents
Biography
Training
Career in South African theatre
Management
Of Institutions, projects and theatres
His postings include Coordinator of the Education Support Project(1984 to June 1985), Director of the Creative Arts Workshop in Lenasia (1995-1996), Director of the Witbank Theatre in 1995?*, then in 2003 became Senior Cultural Specialist at the US Consulate in Johannesburg where he served as both an advisor and facilitator for the US Consulate on its varied cultural and academic exchange programming.
Of Festivals
He was also part-time organizer for a number of festivals, including the University of Witwatersrand's International Social History Festival (for the University's History Workshop Conference, 1995), Just Solo Festival (Festival of One Person Plays: Johannesburg Civic Theatre), the 10th anniversary of the Windybrow Arts Festival for Community Theatre, the 5th year Democracy Celebrations Festival for the Mpumalanga Provincial Department of Arts and Culture and the Millennium Celebrations Festival for the Emahlahleni Municipal District.
On 1 May 2008 he became Festival Director of the National Arts Festival on May 1, 2008 approximately twenty years after he staged his first production at the Festival.
Playwright
Author of a large number of plays, a number of them early, unpublished one-act plays, which tend to deal with specific social issues, a number with strong political content. These include Where Two Worlds Drift Apart, which received the Adam Leslie Award at the 1986 Amfest competition in Johannesburg, and Child of Kathrada, Conversations with Dying Comrades, Indian Coffee, mzwandile’s Guilt, Shantytown Christmas, Thank God It’s a Boy. Later professional work includes Purdah (1993), Leather Boykies (1994), Cheaper Than Roses (1995), *. Some of his work has been is included in published collections.
He has been a finalist in both the Amstel Playwright of the Year Competition and the PANSA Playwrights Competition.
His work has been staged in South Africa, Chile, Denmark, Germany and in the US.
Awards
He has received an award for theatrical excellence from the South African Institute for Theatre Technology, received the Arts and Culture Trust's Arts Administrator of the Year Award in 2006, his theatre-in-education project Newsblitz! won the Caxton Media in Education award. Mahomed was also honoured by the US State Department Africa Bureau with a Merit Honor Award for his consistently high cultural programming at the US Consulate.
Sources
See Gosher, 1988 [JH]
http://www.argief.litnet.co.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_news_item&news_id=36675&cause_id=1270
http://www.artofartbusiness.com/#!ismail-mahomed/cjfr )
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