Gina Benjamin
(19*-) Actress, director and singer. ** ** ** , *.
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Biography
She was married to Sean Taylor. She emigrated to Austrlia in 199*
Training
Studied at the School of Dramatic Art, University of the Witwatersrand.
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Roles in John Osborne’s The Entertainer (PACT, 1983), The Comedy of Errors as Eufesia, 1985, William M. Hoffman’s As Is (Janice Honeyman, 1986), The Grapes of Wrath for PACT Drama in 1986, When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout, (Des & Dawn Lindbergh, 1987), Happy as a Sandbag.
She directed Whale Nation, The Double Bass, Not the Midnight Mass, During the Fall.
Not the midnight mass: featuring Jenny de Lenta, Alan Glass, Terence Reis, Christine Weir and Graham Weir at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, November 2000 directed by Gina Benjamin. Not the midnight mass: featuring Jenny de Lenta, Alan Glass, Terence Reis, Christine Weir and Graham Weir at an unknown theatre, April 1992, dir Gina Benjamin
During the Fall, a workshopped production inspired by Gaynor Young’ tragic fall and subsequent coma , directed by Gina Benjamin with Michael McCabe, Andre Odendaal]], Christopher Wells. Momentum Theatre, May 1990. Pretoria News, 7 May 1990.
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