Jane Fenn
FENN, Jane. (19**-) Actress.
Contents
Biography
Youth
Training
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (Australian comedy-drama)by Ray Lawler, presented by NTO, Marjorie Gordon, Edward Ogden & Bill Brewer. Frank Graves (décor), 1958. Later changes: Fiona Fraser, Joan Blake, Elspeth Bryce, Nigel Hawthorne, Eveline Garratt, Robert Cheetham, Doreen Graves (Costumes).
Acted in The Italian Straw Hat, Little Theatre, 1953. Played in Leonard Schach’s NTO production of The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll(1958). She continued working with Schach, becoming a member of his Cockpit Players and playing in Separate Tables (1958), Try for White (1959) Mornings at Seven (1959), and The Birthday Party (1962) in which she played the role of Meg. For the Johannesburg REPS starred in Ricky Arden’s production of Neil Simon’s Come Blow Your Horn (1962), **
Awards, etc
Sources
Mornings at Seven.. programme notes, 1959.
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