Introducing Dylan Edy, who plays Mr Shears and other roles in #thecuriousincidentofthedoginthenighttime opening at #TheatreOnTheBay on 25 September.
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Directed by Paul Warwick Griffin
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Dylan was educated at Kearsney College and graduated from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Howard College) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and Drama Performance Studies. He began his professional career in 2005 when The Playhouse Company in Durban bought his play, Land Ahoy, which won the New Playwrights Award the previous year at UKZN. Since then he has played a multitude of roles in all media of performance for both local and international audiences. Theatre highlights include playing Laertes in Hamlet at the Durban Playhouse in 2008, receiving a Fools Award nomination for Best Breakthrough Actor in BGM’s Guys and Dolls in 2007, as well as starring in the West End hit New Boy in 2009. That same year, he received a Best New South African Script nomination at the Durban Theatre Awards for his collaborative work on the cult sketch comedy, NATV’s Live Xmas Show. Cape Town audiences would have last seen Edy playing Will Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love at the Fugard Theatre in 2017.
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Introducing Genna Galloway, who plays Punk Girl and other roles in #thecuriousincidentofthedoginthenighttime opening at #TheatreOnTheBay on 25 September.
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Directed by Paul Warwick Griffin
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Genna graduated from the Waterfront Theatre School with I.S.T.D.
International Teaching Qualifications, in Tap and Modern Theatre Dance. She also
completed her Licentiate in Drama and Musical Theatre via the Trinity College, London in 2005. She has worked extensively in all aspects of the industry from stage to TV and film. She is known both nationally and internationally as one of the top Voice Over Artists in the country. Her theatre credits include Showboat, Thoroughly Modern Millie, We Will Rock You, Beauty and The Beast, Cats, Grease, Dirty Dancing, The Sound of Music, Big Girls, Another Day, Dragging 30 and Sweet Phoebe. She won a Fleur du Cap award for “Best Performance by a Lead Actress in a Musical” for her portrayal of ‘Yitzhak’ in the 2017 production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Genna is a partner at The Waterfront Theatre School, where she teaches both Dance and Drama.
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Introducing Ashley Dowds, who plays Ed Boone in #thecuriousincidentofthedoginthenighttime opening at #TheatreOnTheBay on 22 September
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Directed by Paul Warwick Griffin
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Ashley's career began at The Natal Playhouse with epic productions such as 'The Three Musketeers'; 'Charley's Aunt', 'Peter Pan' and Anthony Akerman's 'Old Boys'. It was in fact Nicholas Ellenbogen who offered him his first gig.
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More recent his theatre credits include: Paula Bangels' production of 'Fatal Attraction' (along with Jenny Stead) at Theatre On The Bay and Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, 'Constellations', 'Pale Natives’ at The Market Theatre, 'Soil' at Theatre on the Square, 'Hard Love' (as Zvi) and Claudius in The Framework company's 'Hamlet'.
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Introducing Lesoko Seabe, who plays Siobhan in #thecuriousincidentofthedoginthenighttime opening at Theatre On The Bay on 22 September.
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Directed by Paul Warwick Griffin
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Lesoko graduated from the University Of Cape Town with a degree in Theatre and Performance in 2008. She later returned to the university to read for an MA in Performance, receiving a distinction. Whilst Lesoko is most well known as a sought after Voice Over Artist for radio and television for local and international clients, she works in a variety of performance-related fields as a radio host, lecturer, acting coach, actor and academic.
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As an actress Lesoko has performed across South Africa, Spain, the Netherlands, Denmark and The United Kingdom. Her most recent stage credits include The Fugard Theatre Production of the Pulitzer, Tony and Olivier award winning play Clybourne Park (2016) and South African premiere of Broadway hit Significant Other (2018) directed by Greg Karvellas and Siembamba (2012) (Phil Radermeyer and Penelope Youngleson) which was nominated for a Best New South African script at the 2016 Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards and won the Standard Bank Silver Ovation Award in the previous year. 'In Her Shoes' (2017) which she co-wrote, was directed by Standard Bank Young Artist Award winner Luyanda Sidiya and performed at the Market Theatre. She was afforded two more opportunities to work with Standard Bank Young Artists awards winners, including , James Webb on a voice installation for 2017 Documenta.
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Lesoko also serves on the Executive Committee of the South African Guild of Actors advocating for the promotion and protection of the rights of professional actors. • •
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