Amy Jephta Explained

Amy Jephta
Birth Place:Cape Town, South Africa
Alma Mater:University of Cape Town
Notableworks:Kristalvlakte, , All Who Pass
Awards:Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans
Destiny magazine's "Power of 40" list
Eugène Marais Prize

Amy Jephta is a South African playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, and teacher.

Early life and education

Amy Jephta is from Mitchells Plain in Cape Town.

She has a BA in theatre and performance (2009) and an MA in theatre and performance (2013) from the University of Cape Town (UCT).[1]

Career

Creative career

Jephta is a playwright, screenwriter, and theatre director.[2] Her work has been published in South Africa, and performed internationally.

As a new graduate, Jephta won the inaugural Emerging Theatre Director's Bursary, established and run by the Theatre Arts Admin Collective (TAAC) in partnership with the Baxter Theatre Centre and Gordon Institute of Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA). This enabled her to produce and direct her original work, Kitchen. She had presented a shorter version of the play during her final year at drama school, but it was extended to an hour and ran from 18 to 22 May 2010.[3]

Her works include 'the plays Kristalvlakte[4] and Other People's Lives,[5] and the films (2018),[6] Sonskyn Beperk,[7] and While You Weren't Looking.[8]

Her monologue Shoes was performed by James McAvoy and directed by Danny Boyle as part of The Children's Monologues at the Royal Court Theatre in London,[9] [10] [11] and in 2017 at Carnegie Hall in New York City.[12]

As well as the Royal Court, her work has been performed at the Bush Theatre,[1] Jermyn Street Theatre and Theatre503 in London, as part of the Edinburgh Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, and at the Riksteatern in Stockholm, Sweden.[1]

Jephta was a storyliner and scriptwriter on the drama series Nkululeko, a coming-of-age story set in Khayelitsha, for South Africa's Mzansi Magic Channel. She has also written on Cape Town-based soap opera, Suidooster.

Teaching

Jeptha has mentored community theatre groups in Kwazulu-Natal, was part of the South African New Plays Writing Programme at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and taught acting and voice at CityVarsity in Cape Town and the Simon Fraser University's School for Contemporary Arts (Woodward's Building) in Vancouver. She was also invited to lecture at the City University of New York.[1]

Jephta is a lecturer at the University of Cape Town, teaching bilingual acting.[1]

Other activities

In 2015, Jephta co-founded the African Women Playwrights Network, a digital networking project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council for two years.[12]

In 2017–8, she ran a mentorship project for emerging female playwrights at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town.[12]

She served as chair of Women Playwrights International, an international non-profit that helps to create opportunities and space for women playwrights.[12]

serves on the advisory panel for CASA, an annual award that facilitates connections between women writers in Canada and South Africa[12]

Jephta is co-founder and producer at PaperJet Productions.[12]

Recognition

Jephta was the recipient of the inaugural Baxter Theatre/TAAC Emerging Theatre Director's Bursary[13] [1] in 2010.[3]

She is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab[14] [1] and was one of the Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans in 2013.[15] [12]

Jephta won the 2017 Eugène Marais Prize for drama for Krystalvlakte[12] [16] and the 2019 Standard Bank Young Artist award for Theatre[17]

She was listed in Destiny magazine's "Power of 40" list.[12]

She is an alumnus of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's Imagine Entertainment Impact Lab.[18]

Plays

Films and television

Publications

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Amy Jepthta. 12 March 2024.
  2. Web site: Meet Amy Jephta. elle.co.za. Elle. 14 September 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160915212403/http://www.elle.co.za/meet-amy-jephta/. 15 September 2016. dead.
  3. Web site: Performance – Kitchen. University of Cape Town. 2010.
  4. Web site: Theatre Review: Kristalvlakte. IOL. Cape Argus. 15 September 2016.
  5. Web site: Other People's Lives cracked open. IOL. Cape Times. 14 September 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20211106134753/https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/peoples-lives-cracked-open-1387576 . 6 November 2021.
  6. Web site: Ellen Pakkies Award Winning Film. 17 February 2019.
  7. Web site: Sonskyn Beperk. IMDB. 14 September 2016.
  8. Web site: While You Weren't Looking. IMDB. 15 September 2016.
  9. Web site: Lenker . Maureen Lee . James McAvoy on using art as therapy for 'The Children's Monologues' . EW.com . 6 November 2017 . 12 March 2024.
  10. Web site: Danny Boyle Presents: Children's Monologues . Royal Court . 8 February 2017 . 12 March 2024.
  11. Web site: Ellis-Petersen . Hannah . Hollywood actors to perform children's monologues in new Danny Boyle play . the Guardian . 11 October 2015 . 12 March 2024.
  12. Web site: Amy Jephta . SALA . 20 February 2024 . 12 March 2024.
  13. Web site: Applications for bursaries awaited. News24. 14 September 2016.
  14. Web site: Directors Comedy Lab. Lincoln Theater Centre. LCT. 15 September 2016.
  15. Web site: Mail&Guardian 200 Young South Africans. 200YSA. Mail & Guardian. 15 September 2016.
  16. Web site: Die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie-bekronings vir 2017 . 11 July 2017 .
  17. Web site: 2019 Standard Bank Young Artist Awards winners announced. 2018-11-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20181201005130/https://destinyman.com/2018/11/01/2019-standard-bank-young-artist-awards-winners-announced/. 2018-12-01. dead.
  18. https://www.imagine-impact.com/i2-amy Impact crew
  19. Web site: This Liquid Earth: A Eulogy in Verse by Amy Jephta - play reading. 15 August 2019 .
  20. Web site: Gritty Cape Flats drama to honour a local legend at Suidoosterfees. Next 48 Hours. 18 April 2016. 14 September 2016.
  21. Web site: Kristalvlakte. Afternoon Express. 14 September 2016.
  22. Web site: Vicarious View into Other People's Lives. Artscape. 14 September 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160921002031/http://www.artscape.co.za/news-article/a-vicarious-view-into-other-people-s-lives/57/. 21 September 2016. dead.
  23. Web site: Youth Answers Theatre's Call. Mail & Guardian. 29 April 2015. 14 September 2016.
  24. Web site: A Little More about Flight Lessons. Theatre503. 15 September 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160916042515/https://theatre503.com/2015/07/a-little-more-about-flight-lessonsinterview-with-writer-amy-jephta/. 16 September 2016. dead.
  25. Web site: Flight Lessons. Broadway Baby. 14 September 2016.
  26. Web site: Free / Falling / Bird. ConnectZA. 14 September 2016.
  27. Web site: BOUNDARY BREAKING DRAMA ON BUSH'S RADAR. Official London Theatre. 14 September 2016.
  28. Web site: Engaging drama as brief as the costumes. IOL. Cape Argus. 14 September 2016.
  29. Web site: Amy Jephta does damage control. Artlink. 14 September 2016.
  30. Web site: Kitchen. Theatre Arts Admin Collective. 14 September 2016.
  31. Web site: Kitchen - Performance. GIPCA. 14 September 2016.
  32. Web site: Inside Interiors. Megans Head. 8 February 2010. 14 September 2016.
  33. Web site: Newbie Playwright Examines The Art That "Lacks Artistic Merit. Next 48 Hours. 14 September 2016.
  34. Web site: A Fresh eye on the far side of struggle theatre. Times Live. Cape Times. 14 September 2016.
  35. Web site: Kristavlakte Drama. NB Publishers. 14 September 2016.
  36. Web site: SA Gay Plays 2: An Anthology of Plays 1994–2013 Compiled by Robin Malan. Pen South Africa. 15 September 2016.
  37. Web site: Contemporary Plays by African Women: Niqabi Ninja; Not That Woman; I Want to Fly; Silent Voices; Unsettled; Mbuzeni; Bonganyi: Sophia Kwachuh Mempuh: Methuen Drama . 25 November 2019 . 4 November 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211104171736/https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/contemporary-plays-by-african-women-9781350034525/ . dead .

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