Celeste Litkie

Celeste Litkie (19*-2010) was an actress and academic.

She studied at the Drama Department of the University of Natal (now UKZN), obtaining a B.A. Hons in 1984, followed by an M.A., and, finally in 2003, a D.Phil in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Stellenbosch with a thesis on Selected Black African Dramatists South of the Zambesi, supervised by Temple Hauptfleisch and Dennis Schauffer.

Married to Paul Zaloumis and had two children, Stephanie and Thomas. Later married Andreas **.

She was among the five performers who started the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre Company. Also comprising Melanie Bowles, Mark Faith, Brenda Radloff and Themi Venturas, the company was created at the same time as NAPAC's Loft Theatre Company.

As an actress, she appeared in Fugard's People Are Living There (as Sissy); Tom Lehrer’s Tom Foolery at the André Huguenet Theatre in 1989.