Mitzi Booysen

(19*-) Actress, director, translator and playwright. *** As actress performed in Playing with Fire (Baxter Theatre, 1983), Gulls (Baxter Theatre, 1989) Macbeth (Dieter Reible, 1990), As playwright wrote The Ashes on their Heads (19**), The Time of the Hyena (Windybrow Theatre circa 1986), *. Translations include Bernard-Marie Koltés’s Battle of the Dogs and the Black (19**) and Bloeiende Lente (Wedekind’s Frühlings Erwachen or Spring Awakening) and Ayckbourn’s ** (into German as ). The creative head of Endemol South Africa, she became became the chief writer on the TV series Isidingo in 1998 and in 2005 became the storyline writer of the TV series Binnelanders.