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(197*-) Actress. ***
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'''SMITH, Jaci''' (197*- ). South African stage actress, originally from Cape Town.
  
 
== Biography ==
 
== Biography ==
 
 
  
 
== Training ==
 
== Training ==
Graduated with a Bilingual Performers Diploma from UCT in 1993..  
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Graduated with a Bilingual Performers Diploma from [[University of Cape Town Drama Department]] in 1993. She also studied opera under [[Sarita Stern]].
 
 
  
 
== Career ==
 
== Career ==
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==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
Her theatre work includes ''[[Kwamanzi]]'', ''[[Horn of Sorrow]]'', ''[[Journey]]'' (Hearts and Eyes Theatre Collective). Jaci co-created ''[[In Search of the Perfect Dish]]'', ''[[Tower of Tongues]]'' and ''[[She Gau]]''. For Artscape she appeared in ''[[Boy Meets Boy]]'', ''[[Macbeth]]'', ''[[Fiela se Kind|Fiela's Child]]'', ''[[I Love you, You're Perfect, Now Change]]''. She played Ida in ''[[Honk!]].
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As an actress her theatre work includes ''[[Kwamanzi]]'', ''[[Horn of Sorrow]]'', ''[[Journey]]'' (Hearts and Eyes Theatre Collective), ''[[Macbeth]]'' and ''[[Boy Meets Boy]]'' (both directed by [[Marthinus Basson]]), ''[[Fiela se Kind|Fiela's Child]]'', ''[[I Love you, You're Perfect, Now Change]]'' and ''[[Honk!]]'' both for which she got [[Vita Award]] nominations.
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Amongst other plays Jaci co-created ''[[In Search of the Perfect Dish]]'', ''[[Tower of Tongues]]'', ''[[Virtual Bioscope]]'' (a musical)''[[She Gau]]'' and ''[[For Better, For Wors]]''.  
  
 
== Awards, etc ==
 
== Awards, etc ==
Winner of the [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap]]]] for Most Promising Student in 1993. ***
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Winner of the [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap]]]] for Most Promising Student in 1993.
 
 
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
 
''Honk!'' theatre programme, 2000.
 
''Honk!'' theatre programme, 2000.
 
  
 
== Return to ==
 
== Return to ==

Revision as of 07:00, 14 February 2015

SMITH, Jaci (197*- ). South African stage actress, originally from Cape Town.

Biography

Training

Graduated with a Bilingual Performers Diploma from University of Cape Town Drama Department in 1993. She also studied opera under Sarita Stern.

Career

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

As an actress her theatre work includes Kwamanzi, Horn of Sorrow, Journey (Hearts and Eyes Theatre Collective), Macbeth and Boy Meets Boy (both directed by Marthinus Basson), Fiela's Child, I Love you, You're Perfect, Now Change and Honk! both for which she got Vita Award nominations.

Amongst other plays Jaci co-created In Search of the Perfect Dish, Tower of Tongues, Virtual Bioscope (a musical)She Gau and For Better, For Wors.

Awards, etc

Winner of the Fleur du Cap]] for Most Promising Student in 1993.

Sources

Honk! theatre programme, 2000.

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