Christiaan Olwagen

(19**-) Actor, director and playwright. Born in **. Studied drama at Stellenbosch University, completing a master's degree in drama on adaptations of Shakespeare's Hamlet. He was the 200* winner of the Fleur du Cap Award for most promising student for and while at University also took a playwriting course and began writing and directing his own plays.

Since 2011 he has directed a number of plays professionally, including N is vir Neurose (written by Olwagen), Woza Andries!? (written by Robert Volker, reworked by Olwagen and cast in rehearsal), Vagina Dentata (improvised by the cast) and Ubu en die Secrecy Bill (written by Olwagen). In 2012 **, 2013 Wie's bang vir Virginia Woolf?, Wie Drimk Wat? 2013), Dogma 2014,

He was the recipient of the prestigious Young Artist Award and directed Hamlet at the National Arts Festival, 2015, in that capacity.