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Permanent Staff academic staff
Geoffrey HylandHead of Department. Associate Professor. BA UOVS, HDE, BA (Hons) Cape Town, MFA York
Directs theatre, opera and dance professionally. Teaches across a range of courses with particular interest in directing, acting for stage and camera, and design. Special focus: the staging of gender and sexual politics in theatrical productions. Directing Shakespeare. Associate Teacher: Professional Actors Lab, Toronto, Canada. Has taught in Canada and the USA.
Fleur du Cap Award for Young Directors, Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Drama, Kanna Awards for Best Dance Production and Best Technical. Fleur du Cap Award, Vita Award and Kanna Award nominations for Best Director.
2nd Year Theatre & Performance Course Co-ordinator
Student Affairs & Consultation
Internal Departmental Financial Aid
tel: +27 (0)21 480 7122
email: geoffrey.hyland@uct.ac.za
Mark FleishmanProfessor. BA Performer's Diploma in Speech and Drama, MA, PhD Cape Town
Professor, Programme Convenor for Theatre and Performance. Co-artistic director of Magnet Theatre. Teaches across a range of theoretical and practical courses with a specific focus on theatre-making. Research areas include physical theatre, interactive dramaturgy, site-specific community-based performance and technology and live performance. Fleur du Cap Award for Directing, FNB Vita Awards for Directing and Choreography.
Honours in TV Production Convenor, Theatre Making Co-ordinator
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tel: +27 (0)21 480 7123
email: mark.fleishman@uct.ac.za
Gay MorrisAssociate Professor. BA, Postgraduate Specialist Teacher's Diploma in Speech & Drama, MA, Phd, Cape Town, ADB London
Convenor of post-graduate programmes in the Drama Department. Course leader, Applied Theatre masters and Honours in Drama.
Research and teaching focuses on Applied Theatre, Educational Drama, and research skills in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies.
Executive Committee member of the International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR). On the editorial review panel of the South African Theatre Journal and the editorial advisory board of RIDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance.
tel: +27 (0)21 480 7125
email: gay.morris@uct.ac.za
Jay PatherAssociate Professor. BA Hons (English Literature) BA Hons (Drama) ATCL, MA (New York University)
Associate Professor, Postgraduate Convenor, MA Co-ordinator, Programme Convenor for Movement, Director of Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre
Research Focus: Dance theatre; Site specific and site-responsive work; African Knowledges; Relationship between classical and contemporary African forms; Interdisciplinary and Inter-cultural work; Installation performances; Collaborative research questions with dance, text, visual arts, video, architecture, music and sound composition.
Brett Kebble Art Award, FNB Vita for Choreography; Committee Member – National Arts Festival; Chairperson – Performing Arts Network of South Africa
tel: +27 (0)21 480 7126
email: jay.pather@uct.ac.za
Sabata SesiuPGAD Lamda, MA Leeds
Lecturer. Has written, directed and produced various education, curative and development projects using drama in West, Central and Southern Africa as well as Europe, particularly Denmark and the United Kingdom. Teaches across a range of courses with particular interest in acting, directing and writing. Specialist areas include Theatre and Drama in Education, Community Theatre for Development and African Theatre Studies. Winner of the African Poet Award (London) and the Noupoort Playwrights Initiative Award (Cape Town).
Academic Development Tutor.
tel: +27 (0)21 480 7121
email: sabata.sesiu@uct.ac.za
Jacqui SingerMA Theatre & Performance (UCT), BA (Drama) Performer's Diploma in Speech and Drama (UCT).
Lecturer. 1st Year Theatre & Performance Co-ordinator
Founder member of the Space Theatre Company.
Professional Director and Actress. Has taught voice and acting at a practical level in schools, community projects and universities.
tel: +27 (0)21 480 7124
email: jacqueline.singer@uct.ac.za
Christopher Weare BA (Hons) UED Rhodes
Associate Professor and Director of the Little Theatre. Founder of The Intimate Theatre
Member of The Mechanicals Collective. Professional theatre director and theatre creator.
BA T&P 4th year Co-ordinator
DRM4000H Course Leader
DRM4002H Course Leader
tel: +27 (0)21 480 7136
email: christopher.weare@uct.ac.za
Sandra Temminghprofessional theater director and theater maker. Area of research: The Meta Text in Post Modern Theater.
3rd Year Theatre & Performance Co-ordinator
Bilingual Acting Co-ordinator
tel: +27 (0)21 480 7145
email: sandra.temmingh@uct.ac.za
Mwenya KabweMA Theatre & Performance. UCT.
Lecturer. Drama 1 Co-ordinator. Drama 2 Co-ordinator.
tel: +27 (0)21 480 7175
email: Mwenya.kabwe@uct.ac.za
Sara MatchettMA Theatre & Performance, UCT. Course co-ordinator for Drama 2010F. Teaching profile centres around voice, acting, theatre-making and applied drama/theatre. Interested in interdisciplinary modes of creating. Area of research is around exploring breath as a catylyst for making autobiographical performance. Co-founder and Artistic Director of The Mothertongue Project, a collective of women artists, facilitators and healing practitioners.
tel: +27 (0)21 480 7120
email: sara.matchett@uct.ac.za
URL: http://www.mothertongue.co.za.
Dr Veronica BaxterMA UKZN, (research focus on trade union theatre and theatre for development).
Her doctoral research was conducted through Winchester University’s theatre and media for development programme, and involved practice as research projects in peri-urban and rural programmes around education in land legislation, health and safety and HIV/AIDS. She taught at South African higher education institutions for more than twenty years, focusing on applied theatre and drama, directing, theatre history and South African theatre. She is an accomplished director and performer, and conducted ethnographic research in creating vocal score for the production of BlueBeard, and performing in various musical theatre pieces including You don’t forget Jacques Brel, Nunsense! and Songbirds. She has directed a youth theatre company (The Children’s Crusade, Travel Club and Boy Soldier), several theatre-in-education companies and has written and directed for the stage, including a play about the emigration of white South Africans, called Home Talk.
In past years, Dr Baxter has served as President of the Southern African Association of Drama and Youth Theatre, and has convened numerous research conferences in South Africa for the drama, theatre and performance studies scholarly community. She was part of the Practice as Research working group to investigate and implement accreditation for performance in South African research communities, and part of the working group to develop a representative body for drama, theatre and performance departments in tertiary institutions. She was head of the Drama and Performance Studies Department at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, before teaching in the UK for a few years at Warwick and Leeds Universities, serving on the board of Leeds University Centre for African Studies.
Research interests: Veronica Baxter is interested in the intersection of aesthetics, theatre, education and politics. At the moment she is researching the relationship between the practice of the creative arts and perceptions of happiness and wellbeing, as well as the development of personal resilience. She sustains her research interest in South African theatre and educational theatre, as well as in the therapeutic potential of song and voice.
tel: +27 (0)21 480 7144
email: Veronica.Baxter@uct.ac.za
Full Time Contract Staff
Claire Stopfordemail: claire.stopford@uct.ac.za
Part Time Staff
Liz van BredaEducational Drama
email: lizvb@mweb.co.za
