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[[Megan Kruskal]]. (197*-) is an actress and singer. | [[Megan Kruskal]]. (197*-) is an actress and singer. | ||
| − | Born in Cape Town, daughter of [[Jocelyn Kruskal]] (nee Gottlieb) and [[Len Kruskal]], and trained at the [[University of Cape Town Drama Department]]. At one time she was a member of the South African rock band ''Koos''. After working as an singer and actress in South Africa for a number of years, she eventually relocated to the USA. | + | Born in Cape Town, daughter of [[Jocelyn Kruskal]] (nee Gottlieb) and [[Len Kruskal|Leonard (Len) Kruskal]], and trained at the [[University of Cape Town Drama Department]]. At one time she was a member of the South African rock band ''Koos''. After working as an singer and actress in South Africa for a number of years, she eventually relocated to the USA. |
Her first major role was creating and performing the original ''Ruth”''in Sophiatown by [[Junction Avenue Theatre Company]]. ***, Megan. She starred in David Mamet’s ''[[Speed the Plow]]'' at [[Upstairs at the Market]] in 1990. *** (Tucker, 1997) | Her first major role was creating and performing the original ''Ruth”''in Sophiatown by [[Junction Avenue Theatre Company]]. ***, Megan. She starred in David Mamet’s ''[[Speed the Plow]]'' at [[Upstairs at the Market]] in 1990. *** (Tucker, 1997) | ||
Revision as of 18:26, 10 January 2016
Megan Kruskal. (197*-) is an actress and singer.
Born in Cape Town, daughter of Jocelyn Kruskal (nee Gottlieb) and Leonard (Len) Kruskal, and trained at the University of Cape Town Drama Department. At one time she was a member of the South African rock band Koos. After working as an singer and actress in South Africa for a number of years, she eventually relocated to the USA.
Her first major role was creating and performing the original Ruth”in Sophiatown by Junction Avenue Theatre Company. ***, Megan. She starred in David Mamet’s Speed the Plow at Upstairs at the Market in 1990. *** (Tucker, 1997)
KRUSKAL, Megan, trained UCT, Glass Theatre with Tjaart Potgieter & Chris Pretorius,. The Tempest, Maynardville - dir: Ken Leach; Playing With Fire (Strindberg) Dieter Reible., Exit the King, (Chris Pretorius’s production of The Duchess of Malfi (Sub-titled: The eclipse of Reason), Tjaart’s The Vegetable Woman or Meditations on Blake & The Minotaur’s Sister (An adaption of Euripides’s Hippolytus) also Aletta Bezuidenhout; 1985.
Films include Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988), Shot Down (1987) and City of Blood (1987).
Sources
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0472896/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
http://mg.co.za/article/2010-09-03-sound-of-postpunk-poetry
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