Gail Reagon

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Reagon, Gail

(19**-) Actress and singer. Born and educated in Cape Town, she started performing at the age of four, competing in eistedfods while at primary school. Worked for The Space The Final Sting of the Dying Wasp (197*, directed by Mavis Taylor),***. In 1987 she was cast in David Kramer and Taliep Pietersen’s District Six – The Musical, after which followed a number of plays for the Baxter Theatre and CAPAB, including Buckingham Palace: District Six and The Dying Breed (for which she won a Fleur du Cap Theatre Award as best supporting actress for her dynamic performance). In 1994 she moved to Gauteng, to perform in Fiela se Kind for PACT, and stayed there for six years, performing as jazz singer with Nick Carter. On her return she did Kinkels innie Kabel for CAPAB, Tarts and Glassroots for the Baxter Theatre (winning a second Fleur du Cap Theatre Award as best supporting actress in 1999). She starred in Fiela se Kind at the State Theatre in 1994.

Sources

Tucker, 1997

Reagon, Gail

(19*-) Academic, critic and journalist. Born in the Cape, studied at the University of the Western Cape, doing a masters on South African drama?*. ***

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