Mitzi Booysen
Mitzi Booysen (1958-) is a South African actress, director, translator and playwright.
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Biography
Mitzi Booysen was born in Rome and, because her father was a diplomat, she subsequently lived in Holland, America and South Africa. She completed her schooling at the Pretoria High School for Girls and studied Drama at the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Pretoria. After graduation she acted for PACT, PACOFS and CAPAB
Training
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
As actress performed in Playing with Fire (Baxter Theatre, 1983), Gulls (Baxter Theatre, 1989) Macbeth (Dieter Reible, 1990), Die Eend (Soekie) 1993.
As playwright wrote Ashes on our Heads (19**), The Time of the Hyena (Windybrow Theatre circa 1986), *.
Translations include Bernard-Marie Koltés’s Battle of the Dogs and the Black (19**) and Bloeiende Lente (Wedekind’s Frühlings Erwachen or Spring Awakening) and Ayckbourn’s ** (into German as ).
The creative head of Endemol South Africa, she became became the chief writer on the TV series Isidingo in 1998 and in 2005 became the storyline writer of the TV series Binnelanders.
Awards, etc
She received the 1987 Johannesburg Repertory Players DALRO Award for her role as Liz in Ashes on our Heads.
Sources
Die Eend programme, 1993
The Time of the Hyena theatre programme, 1986.
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