Charmaine Weir-Smith
WEIR-SMITH, Charmaine (19**- ). South African stage and television actress and director.
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Biography
Training
Holds a B.A Honours in Drama from the University of Natal, Department of Speech and Drama.
Career
She spent the early years of her career with the Natal Playhouse Company, moved to Gauteng in 1996.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Performing
She has appeared as Ophelia in Hamlet, Em in The Story of an African Farm.
She performed in Expelled for the theatre company How Now Brown Cow.
Directing:
She has directed a number of productions, including:
1997: Sinderella!
1999: I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (Civic Theatre Johannesburg)
2001: Annie (Johannesburg Civic Theatre
2006: Full Circle (Hilton College Theatre)
2024: My Name is Lucy Barton (How Now Brown Cow)
2026: The Fifth Step
Dates unknown:
Babes in the Wood (Market Theatre)
Awards
She won the 1995 Vita Award for Best Supporting Actress as Ophelia in Hamlet.
She was nominated for Best Director for a Musical comedy for her direction of Babes in the Wood.
Naledi Theatre Awards, February 2006: Comedy performance, female (play, musical or revue): Charmaine Weir-Smith for her role in Two For the Price of One.
Sources
Kultcha Klub One Night Stand programme, 2000.
Various entries in the NELM catalogue.
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