Megan Kruskal
Megan Kruskal (197*-) is an actress and singer.
Born in Cape Town, daughter of Jocelyn Kruskal (nee Gottlieb) and Leonard (Len) Kruskal, and trained at the University of Cape Town Drama Department. At one time she was a member of the South African "punk-noise" band Koos (1986-1990). After working as a singer and actress in South Africa for a number of years, she eventually relocated to the USA, having married Aaron S. Metrikin, and has worked there since as a voice artist, writer and actress under the name Megan Metrikin.
In 2016 she performed her solo play, Finding Fellini at the Theatre Lab in New York, directed and designed by Guy De Lancey. In 2017 it played a variety of solo festivals in the USA.
Her South African career
Trained at the University of Cape Town, then worked for Glass Theatre with Tjaart Potgieter and Chris Pretorius.
Her first major professional role was creating and performing the original Ruth in Sophiatown by Junction Avenue Theatre Company.
She starred in David Mamet’s Speed the Plow at Upstairs at the Market in 1990.
She performed in Love Story with Guy de Lancey at the Market Theatre, date unknown.
Other roles include The Tempest, Maynardville directed by Ken Leach; Playing With Fire (Strindberg) Dieter Reible., Exit the King, Chris Pretorius’s production of The Duchess of Malfi (Sub-titled: The eclipse of Reason), Tjaart’s The Vegetable Woman or Meditations on Blake & The Minotaur’s Sister (An adaption of Euripides’s Hippolytus) also Aletta Bezuidenhout; 1985. Handspring Puppet Company's Tooth and Nail ( Market Theatre, 1989).
Films include Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988), Shot Down (1987) and City of Blood (1987).
Sources
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0472896/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
http://mg.co.za/article/2010-09-03-sound-of-postpunk-poetry
http://www.handspringpuppet.co.za/handspring-productions/tooth-and-nail/
Tucker, 1997.
Photograph of Megan Kruskal and Guy de Lancey in "Love Story" held by NELM: [Collection: MARKET THEATRE]: 2004. 30. 5. 62.
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