Pieter Brand
BRAND, Pieter (195*-) Stage, TV and film actor and director.
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Biography
Youth
Training
Trained at the University of Pretoria Drama Department.
Career
He was a co-founder of Dinkteater (Think Theatre) in Pretoria.
After the demise of Dinkteater, he worked for PACT, PACOFS, SWAPAC and other companies. Later also for the SABC and in the 1990s became a lecturer University of Pretoria Drama Department.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Among his more memorable roles was in Reza de Wet’s Op Dees Aarde.
For PACOFS he has appeared in Romeo and Juliet, Met Permissie Gesê (1982), Snoopy!!!, Die Keiser (1993) and Ampie. For PACT he had roles in Koning Lear, Die Storm, Woyzeck, Dalk, Not to Die Today
Some of the many other productions he played in are Bloedlyn, Macbeth (1992), Confetti, Don Juan onder die Boere, Luc, Nag, Generaal, Plaston: DNS-Kind, Pantagleise, Die Hekse van Salem, The Duchess of Malfi, Drie Engeltjies op Duiweleiland, Kinkels innie Kabel, Taraboemdery, Die Verhoor, Vereeniging, Vereniging, Gulls, Houd-den-Bek, Om 'n Jakkalsbessie, Hond se Gedagte (1981)
He directed Eskoriaal, 'n Lam vir die Pase, Smallholding.
Awards, etc
He won numerous awards for his stage work over the years, with no fewer than 9 Vita Awards. He was awarded two DALRO Awards.
Sources
Kloue programme notes, 1991.
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