Whinney-Isaiah Setimo

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SETIMO, Whinney-Isaiah (19**-) Actor, theatre technician


Biography

Youth

Training

Career

He has worked in the theatre as a technician since the mid-1960s and has in that time been involved in nearly every department, from ballet to opera to drama. He has been based with PACT’s Afrikaans Drama Company in the 1980s.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

He often played small roles on the stage but his first speaking role was in the Marius Weyers production of Poppie. He has also appeared in the Christmas pantomime Robinson Crusoe and in Ek, Anna van Wyk (1985).


Awards, etc

Naledi Theatre Award Lifetime achiever, 2006.

Sources

Poppie theatre programme, 1984.

Citizen 26 February 2006.

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