Danny Keogh

(****-****). Actor. Performed in Marat Sade (as “Duperret”), Comedians (as “Gethin Price”), People are Living There (as “Don”), Don't Drink the Water (as “Krojak”), Grease, (as “Sonny”) and in The Death of Bessie Smith (as “Intern”). (SACD 1977/78) (SACD 1978/79) .

KEOGH, Danny. (19**-) Actor on stage and screen, stage manager, playwright. ***** One of the founding members of The Company, he was the stage manager for the 1976 fundraising production for the Market Theatre. As writer he was the co-author of This is for Keeps (with Vanessa Cooke and Janice Honeyman -1983) and of The Native Who Caused All the Trouble (with Vanessa Cooke and Fink Haysom -1983). *** Besides performing in all the foregoing, major acting roles include The Seagull (Upstairs at the Market Theatre, 1976), *** , ****

His film and TV career includes ** Formed part of Mannie Manim and Barney Simon’s The Company together with Vanessa Cooke, Leonie Hofmeyr, David Eppel, Judith Cornell, Janice Honeyman, Sue Kiel, Aletta Bezuidenhout, Lindsay Reardon and John Oakley-Smith around 1974. He starred in John Herbert’s Fortune and Men's Eyes with Paul Slabolepszy, Ron Smerczak and Bill Flynn for The Company at The Nunnery in 1975.

Also roles in Selle ou storie (Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1975). He starred in Barney Simon’s production of Chekhov’s The Seagull at Upstairs at the Market in June 1976 with Vanessa Cooke, Sandra Prinsloo, Erica Rogers, Marius Weyers, Bill Brewer, Lindsay Reardon and Bess Finney. He starred in Trevor Griffiths’s Comedians together with Michael Howard, Bill Brewer, Richard Cox, Ian Hamilton, Robert Whitehead and Anthony James which was staged at The Market Theatre in December 1976. It was directed by Leonard Schach and designed by Anthony Farmer. Starred in Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, together with Diane Wilson and Michael McCabe for PACT at the Alexander in 1976. It was directed by John Hussey. He starred in The Company’s presentation of Barney Simon’s revival of People are Living There with Wilson Dunster, Vanessa Cooke and Yvonne Bryceland at The Market Theatre in 1977.

Starred in Grease together with Leonie Hofmeyr, Eckard Rabe, Bruce Millar and Sue Kiel at His Majesty’s Theatre in 1977. It ran until June the following year. Starred in a revival of A Long Day's Journey into Night with Shelagh Holliday, Joe Stewardson and Ron Smerczak at The Market in 1978. Starred in Barney Simon’s production of Cincinatti – Scenes from City Life together with Marcel van Heerden, Vanessa Cooke, Lesley Nott, Barrie Shah, Thoko Ntshinga, Bo Petersen, Sam Williams and Robin Smith for The Company at The Market, Upstairs at the Market, the Baxter and the Brooke in 1979. Starred in Donald Howarth’s Ibchek, directed by its author, together with Jacqui Singer, Frantz Dobrowsky, Annabel Linder and Elaine Proctor at Upstairs at the Market in 1979. He starred in Roy Sargeant’s production of Peter Nichols’s A Day in the Death of Joe Egg for The Company at the Market in May 1980. It also starred Sandy Dacombe.

Together with Vanessa Cooke he starred in and wrote This is for Keeps which Janice Honeyman directed at the Laager in May 1983 before playing at Upstairs at the Market in August. He starred in Janice Honeyman’s production, Forbidden Fruits, together with Jeremy Crutchley, Mike Huff, Vanessa Cooke, Amanda Strydom and Annelisa Weiland at Upstairs at the Market in 1983/84. He starred in Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane together with Anthony James, Kevin Smith and Christine le Brocq under Robert Whitehead’s direction at Upstairs at the Market in October 1986. He starred in PACT’s production of Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, which was a collaboration of Tom Stoppard’s text Every Good Boy and André Previn’s music, together with Michael McCabe, Michael Richard and Lynne White under Dawn Lindberg’s direction in 1986. It won the Vita Award for best production. He starred in Bobby Heaney’s productions of Harold Pinter’s One for the Road at the Wits Theatre in 1985. He won Vita and DALRO awards for his performance in John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at the Laager in 1986. He starred in Lanford Wilson’s Burn This at Upstairs at the Market in 1989. He starred in the Moira Blumenthal-PACT production of Ghetto in 1991. *** (Tucker, 1997, Schwartz, 1988, **)

DANNY KEOGH Born in Uganda of Irish descent, Danny Keogh was a founder member of the legendary Market Theatre Company. "We did everything ... sent out circulars, scraped the walls, scrubbed the floors, built the dressing rooms". That was in 1973. He now has over 50 mainstream theatre productions to his credit, a career that includes writing awards for both theatre and feature film, aside from numerous television and feature film acting credits. For somebody who never wanted to be an actor, he has a remarkable career. Recent feature film credits include Hearts & Minds and Jump the Gun. He has made guest appearances in the international television series Tarzan, Sinbad, Konig and The Professionals. His theatre career continues with leading roles in productions such as Pale Natives, Cuba and His Teddy Bears and his most recent This is for Keeps. In This is for Keeps he stars with Vanessa Cooke in a searing play directed by Janice Honeyman about the lives of people caught up in a cycle of domestic violence. With 22 Best Actor nominations and 4 Best Actor awards to his credit, Danny Keogh has become an acting legend.

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