Jeroen Kranenburg
KRANENBURG, Jeroen. (19**-) Actor, director.
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Biography
He is married and the couple has two sons.
Training
Studied at the University of Cape Town Drama Department. Gained wide experience locally, (i.a. at The Space).
Career
He left the country in 1979 to avoid military service and spent 17 years abroad, working for i.a. Sheer Madness Fool's Theatre, Berlin Play Actors, Theater van het Oosten and the Amsterdam Chamber Theatre. He worked across Europe in Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, also in St Petersburg and in the then Yugosavia. He worked in theatre, street theatre, puppet theatre, even one or two art films.
On his return in 1996 he became a freelance performer in Cape Town.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Pleasure and Repentance (Baxter, 1978); directed and acted in Fairy Tales of New York by J.P. Donleavy in 1979, Space Theatre, and The Labyrinth.
After his return to South Africa he has appeared in Darkie (Baxter Theatre, 1997), Dancing at Lughnasa (Baxter Theatre, 1998), As You Like It (Maynardville, 19*), Kringe in 'n Bos (Artscape, 1996), Othello (Artscape/Maynardville, 200*), Obie's Revue (Theatre for Africa, 200*), Stories of an African Knight (Theatre for Africa, 200*), Witnesses by Brent Palmer directed by Matthew Wild (Artscape, 2005), Now Now by Bryan Rostron (Nico Arena, 2005), Truth in Translation 2006, Amadeus (Baxter, 2006), The Birds Kirstenbosch Dec 2004 and 2012, The Taming of the Shrew (Maynardville, 1996 and 2011), Statements 2012. He also had roles in Buckingham Palace, District Six, Deathwatch,
His role in Twaalfde Nag at the KKNK and at the Baxter Theatre directed by Janice Honeyman in 2005 was his first in Afrikaans in 25 years.
His many one-man shows include Work is the Curse of the Drinking Classes (Oscar Wilde), a Cape Comedy Theatre Company production in November 2012, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Stevenson, 2003), Undergound Man (Dostoevsky), Madman 1999, and Boring Man (The Bore*? - Chekhov).
Television and film work includes Proteus, Scoop Schoombie, Charlie [full title*?], Pirates of the Plain, Eating Fish and Charlie Jade
Awards
Fleur du Cap Best Supporting Actor nominee for Dancing at Lughnasa February 1999.
Sources
Die Burger 29 August 2005.
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