Amy Jephta is a South African playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. Works include ''Kristalvlakte'', ''Ellen: The Ellen Pakkies Story'', ''Other People's Lives'', ''Sonskyn Beperk'', and ''While You Weren't Looking''. She is a lecturer at the University of Cape Town and the first recipient of the Emerging Theatre Director's Bursary in South Africa. Her work has been staged at The

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, The

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, The Royal Court Theatre,

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and the

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. Jephta is an alumnus of the

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Theatre Directors Lab and was one of the

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in 2013. Her monologue ''Shoes'' was performed by

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and directed by

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as part of the 2015 show

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at The Royal Court Theatre. She has been a storyliner and scriptwriter on the drama series, Nkululeko, a coming-of-age story set in Khayelitsha for South Africa's Mzansi Magic Channel. Amy also lends her writing expertise to Cape Town-based soap opera, Suidooster, as a story-liner and scriptwriter. Amy is the winner of the 2017 Eugene Marais prize for Drama, the 2019 Standard Bank Young Artist award for Theatre and an alumnus of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's

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Impact Lab.

Education

* BA in Theatre and Performance at the

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* MA in Theatre-making at the

Plays

* ''This Liquid Earth: A Eulogy in Verse'' * ''Kristalvlakte'' * ''Other People's Lives'' * ''All Who Pass'' * ''Flight Lessons'' * ''Free Falling Bird '' * ''Damage Control'' * ''Kitchen'' * ''Interiors'' * ''Pornography''

Films & Television

* While You Weren't Looking (co-writer) *Soldaat (screenwriter/director) * Ellen, The Ellen Pakkies Story (screenwriter) * Trackers (screenwriter) * Sonskyn Beperk (screenwriter)

Publications

* Kristalvlakte (Tafelberg Publishers) * Other People's Lives (Junkets Publishers) * Contemporary Plays by African Women (editor)

References

* Malan, Robin, et al. "SA gay plays 2: an anthology of plays, 1994-2013." (2013). * Jephta, Amy. "On familiar roads: The fluidity of Cape coloured experiences and expressions of migration and reclamation in the performances of the Kaapse Klopse in Cape Town." Performing Migrancy and Mobility in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. 164–179.

External links

Amy Jephta
at the

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Interview with Amy Jephta
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