Paul Eilers

EILERS, Paul. (19**-) Actor, director and radio personality. ** In 1963 joined the Johan Fourie-toneelgeselskap (theatre company) and topured the country with them for 3 years as company manager, stage manager and bit part player. Worked for all the Performing Arts Councils between 1963 and 1972, as stage manager, actor and director, doing more than 100 performances for CAPAB and being a mainstay of PACOFS in the years 1968-1970. Performances included Putsonderwater (Bartho Smit), Mattewis en Meraai (P.G. du Plessis), Kinkels innie Kabel (Shakespeare/ Brink), Siener in die Suburbs (P.G. du Plessis), The Tempest (Shakespeare), Die Laaste van die Takhare (C.J. Langenhoven). In 1972 joined the Afrikaans service of the SABC in Johannesburg and in 1981 became a free-lance radio announcer and actor, TV actor and director. Also marketing manager for the Klein Karoo Nationale Kunstefees from 1996 to **. In the early 1990’s returned to the stage with a touring one man show (Doodkry is Min) which plays for more than a decade. In 2005 returns formally to the stage after a break of 20 years with an award-winning performance as the lead in Pieter Fourie’s Faan se Trein, following it with Faan se Stasie in 2006, and other work in 2007.

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