Helen Houghton
Helen Houghton (19**-) is a South African theatre director and academic.
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Biography
Youth
Training
She graduated from the University of Cape Town Drama Department.
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
She was in the cast of The Mad Woman of Chaillot in the Little Theatre in 1951.
She directed a number of productions for the Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society, including Ruddigore (1975), Iolanthe (1976 & 2004), The Pirates of Penzance (1976 & 1983), The Mikado (1977), The Sorcerer (1978 & 1990), Patience (1979), The Yeomen of the Guard (1980), The Gondoliers (1981), Princess Ida (1982), Utopia, Limited (1984), is an honorary life member of the Society and was appointed Honorary Vice President in 2013.
She directed 1066, and All That (1949), The Tempest at Maynardville and Beauty and the Beast, a Compass Productions (The Space, 1978).
Awards, etc
She won the Cape Times Theatre Award as best diretor of a play for See How They Run, award year 2005.
Sources
Various entries in the NELM catalogue.
Inskip, 1972. p.137.
Astbury 1979.
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