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| − | Among the acting awards he has won are the [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap Theatre Award]] as Best Supporting Actor for "Hal" in Berkoff's ''[[Kvetch]]'' (1988), * As director he has won both the [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap Theatre Award]] as Best Director and the [[Rosalie van der Gucht]] Prize for New Directors for Berkoff's ''[[East]]'' (1990), the [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap Theatre Award]] as Best Director for [[Elizabeth]] (1996) | + | Among the acting awards he has won are the [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap Theatre Award]] as Best Supporting Actor for "Hal" in Berkoff's ''[[Kvetch]]'' (1988), * As director he has won both the [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap Theatre Award]] as Best Director and the [[Rosalie van der Gucht]] Prize for New Directors for Berkoff's ''[[East]]'' (1990), the [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap Theatre Award]] as Best Director for ''[[Elizabeth]]'' (1996) |
Revision as of 13:55, 21 April 2014
(Chris). (19*-) Actor, director, teacher and administrator.
Contents
Biography
Training
He received his training at Rhodes University
Career
Became a lecturer in the Department of Drama at [[UCT in 19*, later made professor and director of Little Theatre (19*). ** ,
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
He played Hal in Kvetch and Graham Johnston in We All Fall Down (1988). He directed East and Eleizabeth. He starred in Lena Farugia’s We and Them at the Leonard Rayne Theatre in 1989. *** Bungee Writing Finals (2003)
Awards, etc
Among the acting awards he has won are the Fleur du Cap Theatre Award as Best Supporting Actor for "Hal" in Berkoff's Kvetch (1988), * As director he has won both the Fleur du Cap Theatre Award as Best Director and the Rosalie van der Gucht Prize for New Directors for Berkoff's East (1990), the Fleur du Cap Theatre Award as Best Director for Elizabeth (1996)
Sources
We All Fall Down programme notes, 1988.
Tucker, 1997.
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