Developing Directors 2016
Developing directors are in the early part of their careers. They will attend writing and directing workshops, and enjoy the fellowship of working alongside the other artists.
NEELO LENTEBANYE
– Birthright
Writer, director and actor hailing from Botswana. She has written plays and this platform is exactly what she needs to get a headstarts towards her upcoming directing career. She is inspired by women in Theatre and aspires to be a celebrated.
I found out about the women’s theatre Festival when I visited South Africa to see a show recently and I was overwhelmed and excited about the role of women in arts as this space showed me that we are making it. My story speaks to women and undoubtedly myself and all the other women across the regions in Africa.
SONIA THANDAZILE RADEBE – Broken Chants
SONIA THANDAZILE RADEBE – Broken Chants
Sonia Radebe believes in using the body to tell stories and, through them, to create dialogue and greater interconnectedness in society.
Radebe, who hails from White City, was introduced to dance by the Arco Dance Theatre in Soweto. She began her career as a professional dancer in 2001 with Moving into Dance Mophatong in Newtown. Radebe is passionate about training people with physical disabilities to explore and uncover the magic.
Her career has been punctuated by a number of accolades, most notably being acknowledged in 2007 by the Gauteng MEC for Arts and Culture as the Dance Umbrella’s Most Outstanding Female Dancer in Contemporary Style and in 2011 being awarded the Gauteng Dance Manyano Best Female Dancer of the Decade Award and won the 2015 Naledi Theatre Award for best Choreographer.
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