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(19*) Actress and director.  As actress*? did *** Also worked with [[Barney Simon]] on a theatre for development project in the Winterveld in the late 1970s - and wrote up the results of the exercise in an article in [[Critical Arts]] (Vol 1, No 3, 1980)
 
(19*) Actress and director.  As actress*? did *** Also worked with [[Barney Simon]] on a theatre for development project in the Winterveld in the late 1970s - and wrote up the results of the exercise in an article in [[Critical Arts]] (Vol 1, No 3, 1980)
Directing credits include [[Elsa Joubert]]’s ''[[Die Swerfjare van Poppie Nongena]]'' with [[Nomsa Nene]] (for [[The Company]] at the [[Market Theatre]] 1980), later in English as ''[[The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena]]'', which she took to New York. From 1981 to the mid 1990’s she worked in the USA, and there wrote and directed ''[[Frida]]'' (1992) and  ''[[Daughters of Nebo]]'' (or  ''[[The Sacrifice of Mmbatho]]'' - 1993/1994).  In the  1990s she returned to South Africa to work in television, becoming executive producer of ''Isidingo'' (1999-) and directing episodes of ''Zero Tolerance'' (2006)  **  
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Directing credits include [[Elsa Joubert]]’s ''[[Die Swerfjare van Poppie Nongena]]'' with [[Nomsa Nene]] (for [[The Company]] at the [[Market Theatre]] 1980), later in English as ''[[The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena]]'', which she took to New York in 1983. From 1981 to the mid 1990’s she worked in the USA, and there wrote and directed ''[[Frida: The Story of Frida Kahlo]]'' (1992) and  ''[[Daughters of Nebo]]'' (or  ''[[The Sacrifice of Mmbatho]]'' - 1993/1994).  In the  1990s she returned to South Africa to work in television, becoming executive producer of ''Isidingo'' (1999-) and directing episodes of ''Zero Tolerance'' (2006)  **  
  
 
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(19*) Actress and director. As actress*? did *** Also worked with Barney Simon on a theatre for development project in the Winterveld in the late 1970s - and wrote up the results of the exercise in an article in Critical Arts (Vol 1, No 3, 1980) Directing credits include Elsa Joubert’s Die Swerfjare van Poppie Nongena with Nomsa Nene (for The Company at the Market Theatre 1980), later in English as The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena, which she took to New York in 1983. From 1981 to the mid 1990’s she worked in the USA, and there wrote and directed Frida: The Story of Frida Kahlo (1992) and Daughters of Nebo (or The Sacrifice of Mmbatho - 1993/1994). In the 1990s she returned to South Africa to work in television, becoming executive producer of Isidingo (1999-) and directing episodes of Zero Tolerance (2006) **

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