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.

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.

She started writing original scripts in 1983 when she was part of a two-member company called Handy Spandy Players geared to pre schoolers. From 1990 to 2007 she and her partner Wendy Nell wrote, directed and performed in over 30 original productions in schools in Kwa Zulu Natal. As senior script writer and director for NPO Arley's Workshop from 2002 to 2011 she was responsible for plays such as amagama amathathu, Rain, The Green Revolution'

Lucky Strike (2010), Woof! Woof! (2011), for adolescents has been accepted for publishing by Junket and plays at the I heart Festival in Durban in October 2011. Five of her works (some with co-writers) were featured at a recent Kids Inherit! Festival at the Durban University of Technology.

South Africa

Started writing original scripts in 1983 1990 to 2007 she and her partner Wendy Nell wrote, directed and performed in over 30 original productions in schools in Kwa Zulu Natal. As senior script writer and director for NPO Arley's Workshop from 2002 to 2011 she was responsible for plays such as amagama amathathu, Rain and The Green Revolution. Recently, her work Lucky Strike was runner up in the Trinity College of London International Playwriting Pompetition and her play Woof! Woof! for adolescents has been accepted for publishing by Junket and plays at the I heart Festival in Durban in October 2011. Five of her works (some with co-writers) were featured at a recent Kids Inherit! Festival at the Durban University of Technology.

South Africa

Other plays that followed are Lucky Strike[1] (2010, runner up in the Trinity College of London International Playwriting Competition), 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.