Tammy Bonell

(See also Tammy Bonell Garner) (19*) Actress, director and stage manager. Born in South Africa, was an AFS exchange student at Fountain Valley High School (California) in 1968/69, participating in school plays there. On return went in to theatre in South Africa, working as stage-manager on She’s Done it Again for the Academy Theatre of Laughter in 1971. Later married to Rex Garner, and they soon formed a very prolific and skilled theatrical team. As actress she performed in numerous plays, including Why Not Stay for Breakfast, Birds of Paradise (at the Academy Theatre), Uproar in the House (at the Hofmeyr Theatre in Cape Town), Chinamen (Lunch Hour Hofmeyr Theatre in Cape Town), Middle Age Spread (on tour, for Pieter Toerien), Cheaters (for Pieter Toerien), Moving (for Pieter Toerien), and Bedroom Farce (at the Market Theatre). As a director she did Colin Higgins’ Harold and Maude at the Laager in 1982, and with Rex Garner directed Birds of Paradise (19**), James Sherman’s Beau Jest in 1993.