Kim Kerfoot
Kim Kerfoot (1985- ). South African stage director and actor.
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Training
Holds a BA in Theatre and Performance from UCT. [1]. He is a graduate of the MFA Directing program at Columbia University, USA.
Career
Kim was a member of the Director’s Lab at the Lincoln Center in 2014 and has been doing work in places such as New York, Los Angeles, Belfast and at the National Theatre of Croatia. He is a co-founder of the North Pacific Gyre Theatre Collective founded in 2016.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Kim performed in Womb Tide (2010) and King Lear (2012). He directed Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act (2012), The Things You Left Behind (2013), Closer (2013), Master Harold ... and the boys (2013), a theatrical adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's gothic horror classic The Yelllow Wallpaper [2] (2015).
Awards, etc.
Ovation award (silver) at the 2013 NAF for The Things You Left Behind.
He won a Fleur du Cap for best Young Director for his production of Fugard’s Statements.
Sources
Sunday Argus, 1 July 2012.
Sources of the various productions.
Amazwi Literary Awards database.
LinkedIn [3].
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