Amy Jephta

Amy Jephta
Born	Cape Town, South Africa
Nationality	South African
Alma mater	University of Cape Town
Notable works	Kristalvlakte, Ellen: The Ellen Pakkies Story, All Who Pass
Notable awards	Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans, Destiny Magazine 40 Women Under 40, Eugene Marais Prize
Website
amyjephta.com

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 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[]

• BA in Theatre and Performance at the University of Cape Town
• MA in Theatre-making at the University of Cape Town

Plays[]

• This Liquid Earth: A Eulogy in Verse ^[16]
• Kristalvlakte^[17][18]
• Other People's Lives ^[19]
• All Who Pass ^[20]
• Flight Lessons^[21][22]
• Free Falling Bird ^[23][24]
• Damage Control ^[25][26]
• Kitchen^[27][28]
• Interiors^[29]
• Pornography^[30][31]

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[]

• 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.

External links[]

• Amy Jephta at the Internet Movie Database [1]
• Interview with Amy Jephta on News24
• Amy Jephta on Expresso Morning Show