Nicky Rebelo

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(19*-) Actor, cabaret artist, director and playwright.


Biography

Training

Graduated at Wits Drama School in 1981.

Career

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

As stage performer

He starred in Paul Slabolepszy’s Making Like America together with Paul, Marius Weyers and Lida Meiring under Bobby Heaney’s direction at the Market in December 1986. Played Bobby in American Buffalo. He has appeared in West, Walking Wounded, Making Like America at the Baxter and the Market Theatres, Superheroes, Marabi, Upfront, The Bicycle Riders and Outers at the Market Theatre.


As film actor

He appeared in a number of South African films, inc;luding 'n Wêreld Sonder Grense, Saturday Night at the Palace, Shot Down, The Stick.

As playwright

He wrote the plays A Touch of Madness and Prophet of the Waterberg and co-wrote Outers with Barney Simon. He wrote the one-woman collection of monologues apparently... or so I heard, performed by Jennifer Steyn in 1990. In 1994 he wrote Apartheid on Trial.

Awards, etc

Sources

American Buffalo theatre programme, 198*

Tucker, 1997


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