Jacqui Singer

(****-****). Actress. She won a Best Actress Three-Leaf Award in 1973 for Four Seasons, and the Three Leaf Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1978 for Homecoming. Performed in People are living There, Gilgamesh, Scarborough, Drums in the Night, Flounder Complex, A Flea in her Ear, A Macbeth, Marat Sade, MacRune’s Guevara, Lysistrata SA (as “Liza”), Medea (as “Creusa’), The Homecoming (as “Ruth”), Boeing Boeing (as “Judith”), Travesties ( as “Gwendolen”), Tartuffe (as “Dorinne”). (SACD 1973) (SACD 1977/78) (SACD 1978/79) (SACD 1980/81)

(19*-) Actress. ** She starred in Donald Howarth’s Ibchek, directed by its author, together with Annabel Linder, Frantz Dobrowsky, Danny Keogh and Elaine Proctor at Upstairs at the Market in 1979. She starred in Pieter-Dirk Uys’ The Rise and Fall of the First Empress Bonaparte together with Ron Smerczak and Michael McCabe which was directed by William Egan and staged by PACT at the Alexander in August 1983. She starred in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? together with Michael McCabe, Andrew Buckland and Carol-Ann Kelleher which was directed by William Egan at the Alexander for PACT in May 1984. Together with Nomhle Nkonyeni, Clare Stopford, Nandi Nyembe and Aletta Bezuidenhout she workshopped and starred in Ulovane Jive which was the opening production of the Windybrow Theatre circa 1986. She starred in Chekhov in Yalta together with Frantz Dobrowsky, Michael McCabe and James Borthwick under Richard Haines’ direction in 1986. She starred in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya together with Frantz Dobrowsky, Michael McCabe, James Borthwick, Shelagh Holliday and Charlotte Butler under Richard Haines’ direction in 1986. She starred in PACT’s annual pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Alexander in 1991. She starred in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman in 1992. She starred in Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance in 1993. * In 20** became a lecturer in drama at the University of Cape Town. SINGER, Jacqui, Albert Albee’s Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf, Alexander Theatre, 1984 with Michael McCabe, Andrew Buckland & Carol-Ann Kelleher, (dir) William Egan, designs, Gloria Lovegrove. Pact.

Nominee 1991 Singer, Jacqui in Callaway: Farce (Margaret Inglis Award for best actress in a supporting role in English); Singer, Jacqui in Ghetto (Margaret Inglis Award for best actress in a supporting role in English);