Gabrielle Lomberg
Gabrielle Lomberg, also known as Gaby Lomberg (19**-2007). Actress.
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Biography
Youth
Training
Graduated from UCT Drama School in 1979.
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Performed in Groucho at Large (Market Theatre), London Assurance (NAPAC, God's Forgotten, Funny Peculiar, Tarts (Johannesburg and on tour), The Parents (as “Cecile”), Fanshen (as “Hu-Hsueh Chen”) and in Don't Just Lie There, Say Something.
She starred in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by John Hussey, together with Andrew Buckland, Dorothy-Ann Gould, Ralph Lawson and Shelagh Holliday for PACT in 1982, played the role of Megan Wells in 84 Charing Cross Road at the Market Theatre in 1982 and appeared in Kevin Feather’s production of Tarts at the Laundro in 1986 and in Des and Dawn Lindberg’s production of When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout, directed by Dawn at the Adcock-Ingram Auditorium in July 1987.
She played Sister Mary Robert Anne in Tobie Cronjé’s production of Nunsense at the Alhambra Theatre in 1988 and starred in PACT’s annual pantomime The Sleeping Beauty at the Alexander Theatre in 1990.
She also performed in Candide in 19**; Beasts in our Backyard in 19**; Aladdin in 19**.
On television she was seen in Simon and Laura.
Awards, etc
Sources
SACD 1981/82.
84 Charing Cross Road programme notes in 1982 at the Market Theatre.
Nunsense programme notes, 1988.
Tucker, 1997.
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