Mitzi Booysen

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Mitzi Booysen (1958-) is a South African actress, director, translator and playwright.

Biography

Mitzi Booysen was born in Rome and, because her father was a diplomat, she subsequently lived in Holland, America and South Africa. She completed her schooling at the Pretoria High School for Girls and studied Drama at the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Pretoria. After graduation she acted for PACT, PACOFS and CAPAB and worked at The Space, The Baxter Theatre and The Market Theatre. In 1982 she married Dieter Reible and they moved to Germany


Training

Career

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

As actress performed in Playing with Fire (Baxter Theatre, 1983), Gulls (Baxter Theatre, 1989) Macbeth (Dieter Reible, 1990), Die Eend (Soekie) 1993.

As playwright wrote Ashes on our 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.

Awards, etc

She received the 1987 Johannesburg Repertory Players DALRO Award for her role as Liz in Ashes on our Heads.

Sources

Die Eend programme, 1993

The Time of the Hyena theatre programme, 1986.

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