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WILNA SNYMAN’s professional career spans over 40 years and started in 1967 as part of the TRUK-company. She received the first of 12 acting awards for her memorable performance in Kanna hy kô hystoe. She also received accolades for her solo performances in Dear Mrs Steyn (a one-woman play about the life and work of Emily Hobhouse) and Sweet Sorrows. Snyman has done myriad dubbing, radio and television work. In recent years, South African television audiences loved to hate her as the matriarch, Madel Ter’Blanche, in soapie 7de Laan. She is currently on screen in the Deon Opperman drama series Hartland.
In 1984 she received a medal from the South African Academy for Science and the Arts for her contribution to Afrikaans theatre. In 2004 she was awarded the Naledi Lifetime Achievement Award. This year she received the ABSA KKNK Kanna Lifetime Achievement Award. As a cancer survivor she is actively involved in cancer awareness campaigns. She also supports organisations involved with children. |
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ANTOINETTE KELLERMANN has been the recipient of numerous awards and accolades during her 35-year acting career. She has worked extensively in television (including Known Gods, Song vir Katryn and Egoli) and in radio. She is widely regarded as a doyenne of South African theatre, has acted in plays covering all genres and worked extensively all around the country. She also toured the world with Faustus in Africa with the Hanspring Puppet Company. She recalls Peter Verhelst’s AARS!, Reza de Wet’s Breathing In and Breyten Breytenbach’s Boklied as some of her professional highlights. She is the recipient of the South African Academy’s award for a Contribution to South African theatre. In 2010, Kellermann appeared in both the English and Afrikaans versions of Manfred Karge’s play (about a woman living life as a man) As die broek pas and Man to Man at The Fugard Theatre and several festivals around the country. She received the Fleur du Cap award for “Best Performance in a One-person show” in 2011 for this role, in addition to three other awards. Kellermann is currently a full time acting lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch. |
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NICOLE HOLM is an award-winning actress and singer. She received her B.Dram degree at the University of Stellenbosch in 1996. Holm became famous for her performances in plays such as Yerma, Tango del Fuego, María de Buenos Aires, Jan en Jorie, Pas de Deux, Die diensmeisies en Elders aan diens. In 2004 she received a Kanna Award for her performance as Maria in Marthinus Basson’s tango-opera, María de Buenos Aires. In 2005 she received a Fleur du Cap Award for her portrayal of Marjorie Wallace in Jan en Jorie. For her most recent performance in Marlene van Niekerk’s cabaret-opera, Die kortstondige raklewe van Anastasia W, Holm also received two best actress nominations. She is a part-time lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch Drama department. |
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LAURENS DE VOS is a Flemish academic, politician and writer. He has translated The Fall of the House of Usher by Steven Berkoff and A Cock and Bull Story by Richard Crowe and Richard Zajdlic into Dutch. De Vos has a PhD in Humanities from the University of Gent. He wrote his dissertation on Antonin Artaud and post-war English drama. He has also published several articles and books about the work of playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Tom Stoppard and Sarah Kane. He currently works as publicist for the Flemish Government. |
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MARTHINUS BASSON has received 56 nominations as director/designer/actor and has been the recipient of more than 36 awards - including the Standard Bank Young Artist Award (1989), the Nederburg Opera Award and The South African Academy’s Award for a Contribution to South African Theatre. . His most recent work includes the design and direction of Beethoven’s opera, Fidelio, for Opera Queensland in Australia, Antoinette Kellermann’s one-woman show, As die broek pas (performed in English as Man to Man), Marlene van Niekerk’s opera-cabaret, Die kortstondige raklewe van Anastasia W, and Antony and Cleopatra at the Maynarville Open Air Theatre in Wynberg, Cape Town. Basson's career highlights include directing Breyten Breytenbach’s three plays: Boklied, Die Toneelstuk and Johnny Cockroach ; Reza de Wet’s Blou Uur and Breathing In ; Peter Verhelst’s AARS!, Tom Lanoye’s Mamma Medea and Eugene O’Neill’s ‘n Lang Dagreis na die Nag (Long Day’s Journey into Night). Basson has worked in Belgium, Germany and in the USA. He is currently a full-time lecturer at the Drama department of the University of Stellenbosch and creative director of TEATERteater. |
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HUGO THEART is an award-winning performer and producer. He received a B.Dram degree from the University of Stellenbosch in 1997. Since then he has worked in all areas of the local entertainment industry. This includes staging and producing concerts, television and theatre. Theart currently works as an actor, director and producer. Most recently he produced the following plays in collaboration with director Marthinus Basson: Korte mette met die versamelde werke van William Shakespeare, As die broek pas / Man to Man and Die kortstondige raklewe van Anastasia W. As die broek pas was awarded best production at the first annual KykNET Fiesta Awards (Die Kortstonidge Raklewe van Anastasia W was also nominated). Theart runs and manages his own production company (in collaboration with Marthinus Basson), TEATERteater. |