Geoffrey Hyland
Geoffrey Hyland (19**-) Cape Town based actor, director/designer and lecturer.
Also billed as Geoff Hyland.
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Biography
Youth
Training
Went to school at Grey College, Bloemfontein, studied at the University of Cape Town and later became a teacher and Associate Professor there. Also studied at York University Toronto.
Career
He became a teacher and Associate Professor at UCT.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
As actor
He has appeared on stage in The Glass Menagerie.
As director
Won the Rosalie van der Gucht Prize for New Directors in 1989 and went on to become a successful director of student and professional work in Cape Town. Productions as director include:
Old Wicked Songs, Barrymore, Madman, A Night in November, The Ghost Sonata, Strangers on a Train, The Yellow Wallpaper, Via Dolorosa, , Habeas Corpus, Women Beware Women, The House of Bernarda Alba (UCT), Kissed by Brel
1987: Madame de Sade
1990: Agamemnon
1992: Deathwatch'
1997: Madame de Sade
1999: The Blue Room
2000: The Trojan Women
2004: Macbeth
2005: Blood Wedding, Masque
2006: Twelfth Night
2009: As You Like It
2012: Sacred Elephant (also co-writer)
2013: Between
2014: Titus Andronicus
He was also involved with French Gray, Miss Margarida's Way,
Décor and costume A Doll House, designed The Rimers of Eldritch.
He is one of the judges for the awarding of the Brett Goldin Bursary.
Awards, etc
Won the Rosalie van der Gucht Prize for New Directors in 1989.
He was the Young Artist Award winner for drama in 1997.
Sources
Madame de Sade programme notes, 1997.
Hilde Roos. 2010. 'Opera Production in the Western Cape: Strategies in Search of Indigenisation'. Unpublished PhD thesis. Stellenbosch University.
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