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FOOT-NEWTON, Lara. (1967/8[?*]-) Director, playwright and theatre manager. Born in Pretoria, completed a BA (Drama) at University of the Witwatersrand (1989), and a MA in Drama at the University of Cape Town (2007). Initially a free-lance director, she joined the [[Market Theatre]] as Resident Director (1996-1997), then became Associate Artistic Director (1998-2000). In her time there she founded the [[Barney Simon Young Directors and Writers Festivals''. After spending 2004 in London working with Sir Peter Hall with a Rolex International Theatre Award, she returned to become Resident Director and Dramaturg for the [[Baxter Theatre]] (2005-2007). In 2009 she became the Artistic Director for the [[Baxter Theatre Centre]]. Over the years she has directed over 40 professional productions as Lara Foot and Lara Foot-Newton. Her directing credits include **, ** [[Paul Slabolepszy]]’s ''[[The Return of Elvis du Pisanie]]'' (1992), [[Nicholas Ellenbogen]]’s ''[[Nick goes Native]]'' (Amphitheatre, 1992), [[Athol Fugard]]’s ''[[Hello and Goodbye]]''  ([[Upstairs at the Market]], 1994), [[Sue Pam-Grant]] and [[D.J. Grant]]’s ''[[Take the Floor]]'' (the [[Laager]], 1994), ''[[Betrayal]]'' (2006), ''[[Amadeus]]'' (2006), ***, ''[[Karoo Moose]]'' (2007/8), **.
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[[Lara Foot-Newton]](1967/8[?*]-) is a South African director, playwright and theatre manager. (Also known as [[Lara Foot]].)
  
As playwright her works include ''[[Tshepang]]'', ''[[Hear and Now]]'' (with [[Lionel Newton]]), ''[[The Well Being]]'' (with [[Andrew Buckland]] and [[Lionel Newton]]),  ''[[Reach]]'', and ''[[Karoo Moose]]'', all of which have been produced in South Africa and aborad and been published. Her numerous awards include the [[Fleur du Cap TheatreAwards|Fleur du Cap Award]] for Outstanding Young Director ([[Rosalie van der Gucht Prize]], 1992)[[, National Vita Award]] (shared with [[Athol Fugard]]) for Best Director (1994), [[Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year Award]] (1995) and [[Fleur du Cap TheatreAwards|Fleur du Cap Award]] for Best New South African Play for ''[[Tshepang]]'' (2003), among others. [[Rosalie van der Gucht Prize for New Directors]] (1992), ***.
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'''See [[Lara Foot]]'''
  
In later years she also worked in film, writing and co-directing the multiple award-winning short film ''And There is the Dust'' (2007?*), being asked to join the Sundance Film Writers’ Lab (2007) and the  Sundance Film Directors’ Lab (2008). Married [[Lionel Newton]] in 19** and has **  (Tucker, 1997)
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FOOT-NEWTON, Lara.  ''[[Tshepang]]''. (Baby rape)  ''[[Duckrabbit]]'' (Lara Foot Neweton & [[Gerhard Marx]])  se Karoo weergawe van ''Waiting for Godot''. [[Mncedisi Shabangu]],  [[Kholeka Quabe]] in Tshepang, [[Artscape]].
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Lara Foot-Newton(1967/8[?*]-) is a South African director, playwright and theatre manager. (Also known as Lara Foot.)

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