Amy Jephta

Amy Jephta is a South African playwright, screenwriter and theatre director.[1] Works include Kristalvlakte,[2] Ellen: The Ellen Pakkies Story,[3] Other People's Lives,[4] Sonskyn Beperk,[5] and While You Weren't Looking.[6] She is a lecturer at the University of Cape Town[7] and the first recipient of the Emerging Theatre Director's Bursary in South Africa.[8] Her work has been staged at The Fugard Theatre, The Bush Theatre, The Royal Court Theatre, Jermyn Street Theatre, Theatre503 and the Edinburgh International Festival. Jephta is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab[9] and was one of the Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans in 2013.[10] Her monologue Shoes was performed by James McAvoy and directed by Danny Boyle as part of the 2015 show The Children's Monologues[11] 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 Jephta
BornCape Town, South Africa
NationalitySouth African
Alma materUniversity of Cape Town
Notable worksKristalvlakte, Ellen: The Ellen Pakkies Story, All Who Pass
Notable awardsMail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans, Destiny Magazine 40 Women Under 40, Eugene Marais Prize
Website
amyjephta.com

Amy is the winner of the 2017 Eugene Marais prize for Drama,[12][13] the 2019 Standard Bank Young Artist award for Theatre [14] and an alumnus of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's Imagine Entertainment Impact Lab [15]

Education

Plays

Films & Television
  • While You Weren't Looking (co-writer)[32]
  • Soldaat (screenwriter/director) [33]
  • Ellen, The Ellen Pakkies Story (screenwriter) [34]
  • Trackers (screenwriter) [35]
  • Sonskyn Beperk (screenwriter)[36]

Publications
  • Kristalvlakte (Tafelberg Publishers)[37]
  • Other People's Lives (Junkets Publishers)[38]
  • Contemporary Plays by African Women (editor) [39]

References
  1. "Meet Amy Jephta". elle.co.za. Elle. Archived from the original on 15 September 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  2. "Theatre Review: Kristalvlakte". IOL. Cape Argus. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  3. "Ellen Pakkies Award Winning Film". Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  4. "Other People's Lives cracked open". IOL. Cape Times. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  5. "Sonskyn Beperk". IMDB. IMDB. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  6. "While You Weren't Looking". IMDB. IMDB. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  7. "Staff". drama.uct.ac.za. UCT. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  8. "Applications for bursaries awaited". News24. News24. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  9. "Directors Comedy Lab". Lincoln Theater Centre. LCT. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  10. "Mail&Guardian 200 Young South Africans". 200YSA. Mail & Guardian. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  11. "Children's Monologues". Dramatic Need. Dramatic Need. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  12. "PressReader.com - Connecting People Through News". www.pressreader.com. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
  13. http://dekat.co.za/die-suid-afrikaanse-akademie-bekronings-vir-2017/8
  14. "2019 Standard Bank Young Artist Awards winners announced". Archived from the original on 2018-12-01. Retrieved 2018-11-30.
  15. https://www.imagine-impact.com/i2-amy
  16. https://www.eif.co.uk/whats-on/2019/amyjephta
  17. "Gritty Cape Flats drama to honour a local legend at Suidoosterfees". Next 48 Hours. Next 48 Hours. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  18. "Kristalvlakte". Afternoon Express. Afternoon Express. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  19. "Vicarious View into Other People's Lives". Artscape. Artscape. Archived from the original on 21 September 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  20. "Youth Answers Theatre's Call". Mail & Guardian. Mail & Guardian. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  21. "A Little More about Flight Lessons". Theatre503. Theatre503. Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  22. "Flight Lessons". Broadway Baby. Broadway Baby. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  23. "Free / Falling / Bird". ConnectZA. ConnectZA. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  24. "BOUNDARY BREAKING DRAMA ON BUSH'S RADAR". Official London Theatre. Official London Theatre. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  25. "Engaging drama as brief as the costumes". IOL. Cape Argus. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  26. "Amy Jephta does damage control". Artlink. Artlink. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  27. "Kitchen". Theatre Arts Admin Collective. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  28. "Kitchen - Performance". GIPCA. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  29. "Inside Interiors". Megans Head. Megans Head. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  30. "Newbie Playwright Examines The Art That "Lacks Artistic Merit". Next 48 Hours. Next 48 Hours. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  31. "A Fresh eye on the far side of struggle theatre". Times Live. Cape Times. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  32. "While You Weren't Looking". IMDB. IMDB. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  33. Jephta, Amy (2017-08-25), Soldaat, Dustin Beck, Elton Landrew, Noel Oostendorp, retrieved 2018-01-08
  34. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7925418/
  35. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9074360/
  36. "Sonskyn Beperk". IMDB. IMDB. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  37. "Kristavlakte Drama". NB Publishers. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  38. "SA Gay Plays 2: An Anthology of Plays 1994–2013 Compiled by Robin Malan". Pen South Africa. Pen South Africa. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  39. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/contemporary-plays-by-african-women-9781350034525/
  • 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.
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