Jerry Mofokeng
Jerry Mofokeng (1956-) [1]. Stage, film and TV actor, director, lecturer.
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Biography
He attended Orlando West High School and Youth Alive Ministries in Soweto in the 1970s. His schooling was interupted by the 1976 protests but he eventually finished matric and in 1983 started his studies at University of the Witwatersrand Drama Department where he initially took his major in acting then later went on to study at Columbia University in America, where he obtained his master's degree in Theatre Directing.
Career
He taught drama at Wits, was resident Artistic Director at the Market Theatre, Artistic Director at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre, Director of sport and culture in Mpumalanga, Artistic Director at the Pretoria State Theatre until his appointment in 2014 as Artistic Director of PACOFS in Bloemfontein.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
He revived Theatre Workshop ‘71’s Survival in the USA, with members of the original cast, who had moved there (1990).
Other directing experience includes *, Zakes Mda’s The Hill for the University of the Witwatersrand in 1992, He directed Athol Fugard’s Boesman and Lena in 1993. Athol Fugard’s Nongogo (Johannesburg Civic, 1994) and at the Pieter Roos Theatre in 1994.
He directed the South African premiére of Zakes Mda’s The Nun’s Romantic Story at the Johannesburg Civic in 1995. In 1997 he reconstructed and produced Gibson Kente’s Lifa* for .
He had roles in several films, among them Tsotsi and Cry, the Beloved Country.
Awards, etc.
Standard Bank Young Artist for drama.
Nominated Vita national Director of the Year Nongogo
Nominated Vita (KZN) Mofokeng, Jerry for `A Raisin in the Sun' (best director)
Sources
Tucker, 1997.
Volksblad, 28 August 2014.
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