Matthew Wild

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(19*-) Actor. *** Studied drama at the University of Cape Town. Winner of the Fleur du Cap Theatre Award for Most Promising Student in 2000. *

Directed Witnesses (Artscape, 2005), Dalliances (Artscape, 2008 – Best Director Award, International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival),The Rocky Horror Show, Il viaggio a Reims, Comedy of Errors, Cabaret (Fugard Theatre, 2015)

A University of Cape Town graduate, he shot to fame with his own play, More, co-wrote Sylvia The Librarian (2001); worked with Cape Town Opera as Assistant Director, played Dionysos in The Bacchae and Father Vincent in Cry, The Beloved Country, and most recently assisted with the devising and then directed Artscape's New Day. Played the role of Oedipus in Jocasta Rising in 2004.

Sources

Jocasta Rising programme notes in 2004.

http://www.artlink.co.za/news_article.htm?contentID=37197


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