Selaelo Maredi

Selaelo Maredi (19**- ). South African theatre director and playwright.

The career of Selaela Maredi began in the early Seventies when he was a co-founder of the Experimentai Theatre Workshop which contributed greatly to the development of skills for the current generation of Black South African theatre.

In 1977 he left for the US to play off-Broadway in Survival. After many years he became artistic director of the Julian Theatre in San Francisco. He returned to South Africa in 1994 after fourteen years of exile in the United States.

He wrote (with Steve Friedman) and directed the satire Homeland in 1992, Blackage in 1995.

He was appointed director in residence at the Market Theatre in 1997 and in 2000 he became associate artistic director for the year.

Sources

The Citizen, 7 January 1997.

Pretoria News, 4 March 1997.

The Citizen, 22 January 2000.

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