Denise Newman

(19**-) Actress for stage, film and television, stage manager, drama facilitator and -teacher. Born in Cape Town. After finishing high school she spent a year as an exchange student in Maine, USA where she took courses in Drama and Film Studies. Later she earned X 4 credits towards a BA Social Science degree through UNISA, spent 12 weeks studying Method Acting at New Africa Theatre Project in Cape Town under Alexander von Raumont (who trained at the Lee Strasburg School in LA) Began her theatre career in 1979, working as actress and assistant stage manager for the Space Theatre, acting in All on Her Own, In Two Minds, The Guise and was SM for The Disguise of the Ashes that arose out of the Karnaval at Scarborough to prove that Leonardo was Right – an investigation of guilt and The Guise as well as ASM for Glass House. Since then a freelance actress, with stage performances including roles in Hell is for Whites Only, Hamlet, King Lear, The Trick is to Keep Breathing, Severance and Goodbye Kiss, Buckingham Palace District Six (***, 2000?*), and Sorrows and rejoicings (Athol Fugard at the Baxter, 2001). Sorrows & Rejoicings with Athol Fugard, Hear & Now with Lara Foot-Newton, Hell is for Whites Only with Pieter-Dirk Uys, Jocasta Rising with Carol Michelle Kaplan. Hell is for Whites Only (Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1982), Oscar in Afrika (Aardklop, 1999).Hell is for Whites Only The Guise, The Trick is to Keep Breathing, Severence, Romeo & Juliet Goodbye Kiss, Buckingham Palace, District Six, Sorrows and Rejoicings Die Van Aardes van Grootoor, Jocasta Rising, Hear and Now, Sister Breyani.

Film & TV roles include City Lovers (Barney Simon, 1980), Onder Engele (****, 199*), Tussen Duiwels (***, 199**), The Sexy Girls (MNET, 199*), Two Weeks in Paradise (SABC, ***) and Meeulanders (SABC, 199*), Erfsondes, Onder Engele, Tussen Duiwels, Meeulanders, Two weeks in Paradise, People like Us, Hotnotsgode, as well as being asked to play a guest role in the daily soap, 7de Laan.

Films include the internationally acclaimed Sara, Sara (an Italian film), Forgiveness, City Lovers and Sexy Girls. Over the years she has been nominated several times, has even won a few but is more concerned about her role as teacher/facilitator when time allows. FILM

In the 1990s became involved in ACTS (African Community Service) and does voice and acting coaching.