Neil McCarthy

McCARTHY, Neil (19**-), playwright, actor, television personality, writer, producer and director.

Biography

Training

BA-degree in Drama at University of Cape Town (1979).

Career

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

One of the leading juvenile leads of the late 1970s and early 1980s, roles in The Labyrinth (The Space, 197*), ****, Another Country (**, 198*), ****, Born in the RSA (Simon & Co, 1985), ****. Wrote ****(19**), ****(19**), ****(19**), The Great Outdoors (2000). In 2001 he came to prominence as the supervising ** of the South African version of the TV-“reality” show Big Brother.

Awards, etc

Fleur Du Cap Award for Most Promising Student (1981), Vita Award for Best Newcomer (1984), Robert Mohr Young Directors Award (1986), Vita Award for Best New Play (1987), Dalro Award for Playwright of the Year (1987), Vita Award for Best Director (Transvaal) (1990), FNB Vita Award for Best Director for MoJo (1997), FNB Vita Award for Best Script of a New South African Play for The Great Outdoors (2001).