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'''Jan Engelen''' (19*-) Actor, director, film-maker?*.
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'''Jan Engelen''' (19*-2018) Actor, director, film-maker?*.
  
 
== Biography ==
 
== Biography ==
 
He is the son of [[Fred Engelen]] and [[Tine Balder]].
 
He is the son of [[Fred Engelen]] and [[Tine Balder]].
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Married to [[Amor Tredoux]]. He died in Stellenbosch, in May 2018.
  
 
=== Training ===
 
=== Training ===
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==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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As a student he had a role in ''[[Don Juan onder die Boere]]''.
 
As a student he had a role in ''[[Don Juan onder die Boere]]''.
  
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He directed [[Die Bywoners]]’s production of the first translation of the Fugard play ''[[Hello and Goodbye]]'' called ''[[Hallo en Koebaai]]'' starring [[Schalk Jacobsz]] and [[Elna Potgieter]] at [[Upstairs at the Market]] in 1981.
 
He directed [[Die Bywoners]]’s production of the first translation of the Fugard play ''[[Hello and Goodbye]]'' called ''[[Hallo en Koebaai]]'' starring [[Schalk Jacobsz]] and [[Elna Potgieter]] at [[Upstairs at the Market]] in 1981.
  
== Awards, etc ==
 
  
  

Revision as of 09:21, 9 May 2018

Jan Engelen (19*-2018) Actor, director, film-maker?*.

Biography

He is the son of Fred Engelen and Tine Balder.

Married to Amor Tredoux. He died in Stellenbosch, in May 2018.

Training

He studied at the Stellenbosch University Drama Department.

Career

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

As a student he had a role in Don Juan onder die Boere.

Jan played the lead in Seneca's Oedipus at the Doornfontein Arena in 1971, directed by Schalk Jacobsz. Other roles for PACT included The Birds (1971), The Fantasticks (1972), Investigation into the Death of a Greek (1973), Dubbelspel met die Dood (1974), Theodora (1974), Plaston: DNS-Kind (1974), Die Rebellie van Lafras Verwey (1975).

He directed Die Bywoners’s production of the first translation of the Fugard play Hello and Goodbye called Hallo en Koebaai starring Schalk Jacobsz and Elna Potgieter at Upstairs at the Market in 1981.


Sources

Tucker, 1997.

Martin 2008.

IMDb [1].

For more recent information see http://kyknet.dstv.com/2013/03/12/jan-engelen-as-zoutevis/

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