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=== Training === | === Training === | ||
| − | She trained at the [[University of Cape Town Drama Department|University of Cape Town Drama School]]. | + | She trained at the [[University of Cape Town Drama Department|University of Cape Town Drama School]]. |
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Together with [[Nomhle Nkonyeni]], [[Clare Stopford]], [[Nandi Nyembe]] and [[Aletta Bezuidenhout]] she workshopped and starred in [[Ulovane Jive]] which was the opening production of the [[Windybrow Theatre]] circa 1986. | Together with [[Nomhle Nkonyeni]], [[Clare Stopford]], [[Nandi Nyembe]] and [[Aletta Bezuidenhout]] she workshopped and starred in [[Ulovane Jive]] which was the opening production of the [[Windybrow Theatre]] circa 1986. | ||
| − | + | She starred in ''[[Chekhov in Yalta]]'' together with [[Frantz Dobrowsky]], [[Michael McCabe]] and [[James Borthwick]] under [[Richard Haines]]'s direction in 1986. | |
She starred in Chekhov's ''[[Uncle Vanya]]'' together with [[Frantz Dobrowsky]], [[Michael McCabe]], [[James Borthwick]], [[Shelagh Holliday]] and [[Charlotte Butler]] under [[Richard Haines]]'s direction in 1986. | She starred in Chekhov's ''[[Uncle Vanya]]'' together with [[Frantz Dobrowsky]], [[Michael McCabe]], [[James Borthwick]], [[Shelagh Holliday]] and [[Charlotte Butler]] under [[Richard Haines]]'s direction in 1986. | ||
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She starred in [[PACT]]’s annual pantomime ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'' at the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1991. | She starred in [[PACT]]’s annual pantomime ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'' at the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1991. | ||
| − | She starred in [[Wole Soyinka]]’s ''[[Death and the | + | She starred in [[Wole Soyinka]]’s ''[[Death and the King's Horseman]]'' in 1992. |
She starred in [[Edward Albee]]’s [[A Delicate Balance]] in 1993. | She starred in [[Edward Albee]]’s [[A Delicate Balance]] in 1993. | ||
== Awards, etc == | == Awards, etc == | ||
| − | She won a Best Actress Three-Leaf Award in 1973 for ''[[Four Seasons]]'', and the Three Leaf Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1978 for ''[[Homecoming]]''. | + | She won a Best Actress Three-Leaf Award in 1973 for ''[[The Four Seasons]]'', and the Three Leaf Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1978 for ''[[Homecoming]]''. |
| − | Nominee 1991 in ''[[Callaway | + | Nominee 1991 in ''[[Callaway; Farce]]'' (Margaret Inglis Award for best actress in a supporting role in English); in ''[[Ghetto]]'' (Margaret Inglis Award for best actress in a supporting role in English). |
As director she won a [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap Award]] for Best Director for ''[[Grace and Glorie]]''(1998). | As director she won a [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap Award]] for Best Director for ''[[Grace and Glorie]]''(1998). | ||
Revision as of 20:14, 20 June 2015
SINGER, Jacqui (19**-) Actress, director, teacher.
Contents
Biography
Youth
Training
She trained at the University of Cape Town Drama School.
Career
She joined The Space as a founder member in the 1972.
In 20** became a lecturer in drama at the University of Cape Town.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Performed in People are Living There, Gilgamesh, Scarborough, Drums in the Night, A Flea in her Ear, A Macbeth, Marat/Sade, Lysistrata SA (as “Liza”), Medea (as “Creusa’), The Homecoming (as “Ruth”), Boeing Boeing (as “Judith”), Travesties ( as “Gwendolen”), Tartuffe (as “Dorine”).
Acted in Slag, Superman, Thirteen Clocks, Tinkle Tinkle, Tsafendas, What the Butler Saw, The Exception and the Rule, The Flounder Complex, The Four Seasons, Fragments, Futz, The Happy Prince, Kitsch, Lysistrata S.A., Macrune’s Guevara, Medea, Miss South Africa and Tooth of Crime. She also directed The Happy Prince for The Space.
She starred in Donald Howarth’s Ibchek, directed by its author, together with Annabel Linder, Frantz Dobrowsky, Danny Keogh and Elaine Proctor at Upstairs at the Market in 1979.
She starred in Pieter-Dirk Uys's The Rise and Fall of the First Empress Bonaparte together with Ron Smerczak and Michael McCabe which was directed by William Egan and staged by PACT at the Alexander Theatre in August 1983.
She starred in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? together with Michael McCabe, Andrew Buckland and Carol-Ann Kelleher which was directed by William Egan at the Alexander Theatre for PACT in May 1984.
Together with Nomhle Nkonyeni, Clare Stopford, Nandi Nyembe and Aletta Bezuidenhout she workshopped and starred in Ulovane Jive which was the opening production of the Windybrow Theatre circa 1986.
She starred in Chekhov in Yalta together with Frantz Dobrowsky, Michael McCabe and James Borthwick under Richard Haines's direction in 1986.
She starred in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya together with Frantz Dobrowsky, Michael McCabe, James Borthwick, Shelagh Holliday and Charlotte Butler under Richard Haines's direction in 1986.
She starred in PACT’s annual pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Alexander Theatre in 1991.
She starred in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King's Horseman in 1992.
She starred in Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance in 1993.
Awards, etc
She won a Best Actress Three-Leaf Award in 1973 for The Four Seasons, and the Three Leaf Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1978 for Homecoming.
Nominee 1991 in Callaway; Farce (Margaret Inglis Award for best actress in a supporting role in English); in Ghetto (Margaret Inglis Award for best actress in a supporting role in English).
As director she won a Fleur du Cap Award for Best Director for Grace and Glorie(1998).
Sources
SACD 1973; 1977/78; 1978/79; 1980/81.
Tartuffe theatre programme, 1978.
Tucker, 1997.
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