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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. [1] She has a BA in theatre and performance (2009) and an MA in theatre and performance (2013) from the University of Cape Town (UCT). [2] Career. Creative career.
Amy Jephta is a playwright and director. She obtained two degrees from the University of Cape Town: a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Performance in 2009 as well as a Masters of Arts in Theatre and Performance in 2013. Her research interests include dramaturgy, new play development, and ethnographic playwriting.
She is the chair of Women Playwrights International. She is currently under commission at the Royal Court. Amy is a South-African playwright, screenwriter and actor, based in Cape Town. She was named one of the Mail & Guardian’s 200 Top Young South Africans in 2013.
Amy Jephta. Writer: Barakat. Amy Jephta is known for Barakat (2020), Soldaat (2017) and Devil's Peak (2023).
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May 8, 2021 · This delightful conversational interview with Mnet interviewer Kaye Ann Williams plummets the intrigue and the integrity that went into the making of Barakat by long time film making partners Amy...
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May 25, 2021 · Amy Jephta aims to bring communities together by making films that are gritty and personal. First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. Amy Jephta doesn’t like the limelight.
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Amy Jephta is a bilingual Cape Town based playwright, director and columnist who completed her MA in Playwriting at the University of Cape Town. As a director, she was the first national recipient of the Baxter Theatre/TAAC Emerging Theatre Director’s Bursary and is an alumni of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab in New York.
