Helena Kriel

Helena Kriel (19**-) Actress, playwright, filmmaker, director

Biography

She was born and brought up in Johannesburg, she graduated with a BA Honours in Drama from the Witwatersrand University, as the top actress and overall top directing student of her year.

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

She wrote or co-wrote the plays Pigs on Passion, Arachnid, K+M+B, I Can't Wait to Tie You to the Sofa (Arena, Windybrow, March 1990); co-wrote the screenplays for Tsotsi, Skin. She acted in Pigs on Passion, Beirut.

Awards, etc

She was the winner in 1991 of the Diane Thomas Screen-writing Award [1].

Sources

Various entries in the NELM catalogue.

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