Gisele Turner
Gisele Turner is a teacher, performer, director and playwright.
Apparently also found credited as Gisele Therese Turner or Gisèle Thérèse Turner in some sources.
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Biography
Born in England to French parents Gisele Turner was brought up in Zimbabwe and has lived in Natal, South Africa since 1973.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
In the 1980s she performed in plays like How the Other Half Loves, Franky and Raggett, Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and directed I Have No! in 1984.
Author of plays for adul;ts and for children, including Lucky Strike[1] (2010), Woof Woof (2011), eLimboland (Chosen as best stage play script at the Writers' Guild of SA Muse Awards, 2014), .
Began a drama studio called Gisele Turner’s Drama Studio in Escombe, KwaZulu-Natal, where she focuses on speech, drama and creative play, offering morning classes for home school learners, afternoon classes and individual lessons.
Sources
SACD 1980/81.
https://www.writelocalplayglobal.org/playwrights/turner-gisele-south-africa.html
http://news.artsmart.co.za/2014/02/gisele-turners-drama-studio.html
https://www.writelocalplayglobal.org/playwrights/turner-gisele-south-africa.html
https://www.iol.co.za/entertainment/whats-on/in-limbo-and-in-search-of-secrets-1631307
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