Neil Sandilands

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(19*-) Actor for stage and TV. ****

Biography

Training

Graduated from the Rand Afrikaans University in 1996 (BA Communications).


Career

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

Made a name for himself in TV as Bart in the hugely popular Afrikaans soap-opera Sewende Laan (Seventh Aveue). Among the stage acting awards he has won are the Fleur du Cap Theatre Award as Best Supporting Actor for "Guy" in My Night With Greig (2002), *

His film and television credits include lead characters in productions Meesters, Konings, Carpe Diem, Soutmansland. He has produced and directed a short film entitled Entre Nous. He has received acclaim as a writer with theatre productions Noir and Vincent, which he also produced and performed in, for the National Arts Festival. He appeared as Gene in Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight (2000).

In Saturday Night at the Palace as Vince, directed by Bobby Heaney, Baxter Theatre, January 2004.

In Faan se Trein with Tinarie van Wyk Loots, directed by Albert Maritz in the Bellville Civic Centre, 2006.

Festen (director Heinrich Reisenhofer, 2007. KKNK).

Awards, etc

Sources

Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight programme notes

Cape Times 31 August 2006


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