Joanna Weinberg

(19**-) Actress, cabaret and revue artist. Studied drama at the University of Cape Town Drama Department???, and became a prominent actress for the Baxter Theatre, PACT and the Market Theatre. Perhaps her most notable role was as Desdemona opposite John Kani and Richard Haines in Janet Suzman’s Market Theatre production of Othello. However she also made a name for herself in cabaret. Began at venues like No 58, Hillbrow, under the watchful eye of Barbara Thompson. *** Her film and televsion work includes *** WEINBERG, Joanna. She starred in Janet Suzman’s production of Othello at the Market in September 1987. She starred in Janice Honeyman’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, also directed by Honeyman at the Alexander in 1987. She starred in William Finn’s March of the Falsettos at the Adcock-Ingram in September 1989. She starred in PACT’s annual pantomime The Sleeping Beauty at the Alexander in 1990.

Sources

Tucker, 1997

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