Introducing Liz Szymcak, who plays Mrs Alexander and other roles in #thecuriousincidentofthedoginthenighttime opening at Theatre On The Bay on 25 September.
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Directed by Paul Warwick Griffin
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Liz graduated from UCT in 1975 and started her journeying in the theatre. She married Nicholas Ellenbogen a year later, and together they had three beautiful children, Matthew, Luke and Amy and left for the valley of a thousand hills for Nick to start a multi-racial theatre company within a National Arts Council South Africa, the Loft Company at NAPAC. Nicholas wrote some incredible plays then, like HORN OF SORROW AND A NATIVITY. Seven years later they returned to Johannesburg. Thereafter they ventured up north for a couple of years to Tanzania and Kenya, working in 7 SADAC. They lived in villages and worked on issues that significantly affected the villagers. Issues like poaching, land tenure, overfishing and crop raiding. They went from village to village debating these issues after each performance. Liz was the voice teacher for these multinational actors - each important word had to be clearly heard for the debate after the performance. In 1996 Liz went around the world with GUARDIANS OF EDEN and a HERALD ANGEL AWARD for one of the best shows at the Edinburgh Festival. The play performed to standing ovations at the IUCN World Congress in Montreal. The Duke of Edinburgh enjoyed a performance in Berlin.
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Here Liz and Nick made the Live Theatre, Theatre in the Castle, the Olympia Bakery Theatre, the theatre at the Old Zoo, the Kalk Bay Theatre, The Post Box Theatre and lastly the Rosebank Theatre that finally closed its doors last year in July.
Nicholas has written many exotic and wonderful parts for Liz to performing in over the 42 years that they have been together on this theatrical journey. Parts in TROPHY HUNTER, A NATIVITY, SOMMER CINDERELLA, MUSIC ROOM and KLOOF EAGLE to name but a few. Liz feels never more alive than when she is on stage immersed in a well-written character.
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Introducing Jenny Stead , who plays Judy Boone in #thecuriousincidentofthedoginthenighttime opening at #TheatreOnTheBay on 25 September.
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Jenny obtained her honours degree in Drama from the University of Stellenbosch, during which time she was nominated for a Fleur du Cap for Most Promising Student. After graduating she won the Vita award for Best New Actress for her performance as the chain smoking, cocaine snorting, troubled copy writer in Fiona Coyne's smash hit comedy 'Glass Roots'. Jenny has forged a career playing diverse roles from the tragic Ophelia in Stephen Berkoff's 'The Secret Live Life of Ophelia' to the ditzy Brooke in the hilarious 'Noises off'. Jenny won a Fleur du Cap for her performance as a dying succubus in Reza de Wet's 'Breathing In', followed by a tour through the USA and Europe with the New York Collonade's production of the politically charged, 'Truth In Translation'. Jenny was nominated for a Fleur du Cap for Best Actress in A Musical for her portrayal of Janet in the Rocky Horror Show which played to sold out houses for over 300 shows. Her 4th Fleur de Cap Nomination was for the Visit in 2018.

Her film and television credits include 'The Poseidon Adventure', 'Starship Troopers 3', the Golden Globe nominated 'Restless' and a recurring role in season 2 of ICE. Jenny is perhaps best known for her NSFW NBC Grindhouse television series 'Blood Drive', where she plays a middle American suburban housewife serial killer!

Audiences would have enjoyed her recent performance in Fatal Attraction earlier this year for Pieter Toerien at theater On The Bay and at Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theater in Johannesburg.
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Introducing Dylan Edy, who plays Mr Shears and other roles in #thecuriousincidentofthedoginthenighttime opening at #TheatreOnTheBay on 25 September.
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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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