Jonathan Taylor
Jonathan Taylor (19**-). Actor and singer.
Contents
Biography
Youth
Training
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Performed in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (as Benjamin and Joseph), Grease (for Brickhill-Burke), Holy Moses and All That Jazz (at the Market Theatre), the ME nobody knows, for The Company at the Market Theatre in 1977, Godspell 1985.
He also starred in William Finn’s March of the Falsettos in September 1989 and in Jo'burg Follies at the Leonard Rayne in January 1990.
Other productions include Buddy! The Buddy Holly Story, Maid in the New South Africa, The Pirates of Penzance, The Fool in Shakespeare, Oh What a Lovely War!, Six Degrees of Separation and as the father Maurice in a 2008 production of the musical Beauty and the Beast. He appeared in a production of Equus directed by Alby Michaels at the Con Cowan Theatre, UJ, in 2013.
Awards, etc
He was nominated for a Vita Award (Natal region) as best supporting actor for his role in Falsettoland, award year 1992.
Sources
SACD 1975/76; 1977/78; 1978/79; 1979/80; 1980/81.
Tucker, 1997.
The Star, 23 April 2013.
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