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==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
  
''[[Aladdin]]'':  Pantomime, (''[[Cape Flavour]]'')Dir: [[Maralin Vanrenen]]:  [[Dale Cutts]], [[Charles Comyn]], [[Adrienne Pearce]], [[Peter Krummeck]] & Jennifer Ferguson, [[Peter Butler]], [[Mike Chase]], [[Baxter Theatre]], 1984.  Marilyn Taylors’ musical band.
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''[[Aladdin]]'':  Pantomime, (''[[Cape Flavour]]'') directed by [[Maralin Vanrenen]].
  
''[[The Winter's Tale]]'', ''[[Mitzi Blitz]]'', ''[[The Lion and the Lamb]]'', ''[[Up 'n Atom]]''.
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She has appeared on stage in ''[[The Winter's Tale]]'' (as a student in 1981), ''[[Mitzi Blitz]]'', ''[[The Lion and the Lamb]]'', ''[[Up 'n Atom]]''.
  
 
== Awards, etc ==
 
== Awards, etc ==

Revision as of 07:28, 16 October 2017

Jennifer Ferguson (born circa 1960). Singer, songwriter, politician, actress.

Biography =

Jennifer was born in Ermelo and went to school in Johannesburg.

She became an ANC member of parliament in 1994, but later resigned to join her husband in Sweden. She is married to the Swedish choral conductor and composer Anders Nyberg. She returns to South Africa regularly to perform.

Training

She studied journalism for a while at Rhodes University (1979), then on to the University of the Witwatersrand, before dropping out and doing a degree in Drama at the University of Cape Town. BA; Perf. Dipl UCT 1980-1982.

Career

Most of her performance work is in cabaret and musical concerts, starting with gigs at places like No 58, Hillbrow, though she has performed at the Market Theatre, notably in Women of Africa (19**).

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

Aladdin: Pantomime, (Cape Flavour) directed by Maralin Vanrenen.

She has appeared on stage in The Winter's Tale (as a student in 1981), Mitzi Blitz, The Lion and the Lamb, Up 'n Atom.

Awards, etc

Sources

Go to ESAT Bibliography

For more information =

[1].


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