Nadya Cohen

(19**-) Designer

Training

Obtained a BA (Hons) Theatre Design in Wimbledon, UK

Career

Has been associated with the Market Theatre for many years, helping in the original organisation of the Art Gallery. In England Nadya designed Crystal Clear for the Wyndhams Theatre and The Caretaker for the Royal Exchange in Manchester.

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

She designed the sets for The Glass Menagerie, Nongogo, Hey Smile With Me, The War at Home, True West, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Diepe Grond, Making Like America all for the Market Theatre Company. She has been a design lecturer for Theatre crafts at the Wiwatersrand Technikon.

Awards, etc

AA Mutual Vita Quarterly Award for Best Set Design, The War at Home

Sources

Making Like America programme notes

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