Geoffrey Hyland

Geoffrey Hyland (19**-) Cape Town based actor, director/designer and lecturer.

Also billed as Geoff Hyland.

Biography

Training

Went to school at Grey College, Bloemfontein, studied at the University of Cape Town and later became a teacher and Associate Professor there. Also studied at York University Toronto.

Career

He became a teacher and Associate Professor at UCT.

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

As actor

He has appeared on stage in The Glass Menagerie.

As director

Won the Rosalie van der Gucht Prize for New Directors in 1989 and went on to become a successful director of student and professional work in Cape Town. Productions as director include:

Old Wicked Songs, Barrymore, Madman, A Night in November, The Ghost Sonata, Strangers on a Train, The Yellow Wallpaper, Via Dolorosa, , Habeas Corpus, Women Beware Women, The House of Bernarda Alba (UCT), Kissed by Brel

1987: Madame de Sade

1990: Agamemnon

1992: Deathwatch'

1997: Madame de Sade

1999: The Blue Room

2000: The Trojan Women

2004: Macbeth

2005: Blood Wedding, Masque

2006: Twelfth Night

2009: As You Like It

2012: Sacred Elephant (also co-writer)

2013: Between

2014: Titus Andronicus

He was also involved with French Gray, Miss Margarida's Way,

Décor and costume A Doll House, designed The Rimers of Eldritch.

He is one of the judges for the awarding of the Brett Goldin Bursary.

Awards, etc

Won the Rosalie van der Gucht Prize for New Directors in 1989.

He was the Young Artist Award winner for drama in 1997.

Sources

Madame de Sade programme notes, 1997.

Hilde Roos. 2010. 'Opera Production in the Western Cape: Strategies in Search of Indigenisation'. Unpublished PhD thesis. Stellenbosch University.

Go to ESAT Bibliography

Return to

Return to ESAT Personalities H

Return to South African Theatre Personalities

Return to The ESAT Entries

Return to Main Page