Owen Sejake

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Owen Sejake (19*-) Actor.


Biography

Youth

Training

Career

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

His theatrical repertoire includes the most respected playwrights and directors in Africa.

He had a role in Night of the Long Wake which was the opening production of the Dhlomo Theatre in 1983.

Other roles were in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman (1992), Prophets in the Black Sky (1992), Julius Caesar (as Brutus, Windybrow, 1994).

He has also appeared on stage in Ifindo (1979), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1986), Daughter of Nebo (1993), Nongogo (1994), The Piano Lesson (1996), The Captain’s Tiger: A Memoir for the Stage (1997 and 1998 and in Afrikaans as Die kaptein se tier in 2011), Milestones (1999), Stand in the Sun (1999), On My Birthday (2002), The Train Driver (2010).

Owen has performed in numerous Film, Television and Theater productions. His film credits include, Hijack Stories, Mandela and De Klerk and Shot Down. He is well known for Television appearances on the drama series Yizo Yizo 2, Ke Nako and Soul City.

Awards, etc

Owen was nominated for a Fleur du Cap as best supporting actor for his role in Die kaptein se tier.

Sources

Tucker, 1997. 513, 536.

Various entries in the NELM catalogue.

For more information

[1], [2].

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