On the back of two incredibly difficult years, where the South African Arts Community has pulled together and shown the country what they are made of, theatre practitioners have created works in incredibly difficult circumstances.
“The Naledi Awards are looking forward to an incredibly busy and fulfilling year ahead and are quite optimistic to recognize and reward excellence in theatre – in line with the vision and honouring the legacy of Naledi Founder, the late Dawn Lindberg” said Lihan Pretorius, Naledi CEO and Executive Director. “Primarily, we are looking forward to a year of theatre, innovation and hopefully a return to a semblance of normality in our decimated industry,” echoed Naledi Chairperson, Kgomotso Christopher.
Director: Judging Panels, Renos Spanoudes, added that “The 2020/21 panels have been reviewed and following a call for new applications, the panels for 2022 are truly representative of the theatre industry. The Naledi Theatre Awards are excited by the incredible diversity and breadth of theatrical knowledge that the newly constituted judging panels represent.”
As the industry slowly opens up, the Naledis are also very happy to announce that the Awards Ceremony for the combined years in review of 2020 and 2021 (as a singular judging cycle) will take place during May, 2022, with the nomination announcements to be made by the end of February, 2022.
The full list of the Naledi Executive Team and judging panels have been elected and confirmed as follows:
Naledi Board Of
Directors 2022
Kgomotso Christopher (Chair); Sello Maake Ka Ncube (Deputy
Chair); Lihan Pretorius (CEO / Executive Director: Legal); Des Lindberg (Executive
Director: Technical); Renos Spanoudes (Director: Judging Panels); Chris Avant
Smith (Director: Public Relations, Strategy and Marketing), and Anthony Chait (Consultant:
Finance, Audit and Risk)
Management Committee
Lihan Pretorius (CEO / Legal; Renos Spanoudes – Judging
Panels and related matters); Chris Avant Smith (Strategy and Sponsorships), and
Dayle Littlefield (Administrative Manager)
Publicist 2022: TBC
Awards Nominations And -Winners Voting Auditor(S)
Marno Coetzer C.A. (SA)
Plays and Musical Theatre 2022
Gregory Goss (Convenor); AJ Opperman; Alby Michaels; Annelize
Hicks; Chris Avant Smith; Johan van der Merwe; Lance Maron; Lihan Pretorius; Maralin
Vanrenen; Marié-Heleen Coetzee; Nita Cronjé; Ntambo Rapatla; Obett Motaung; Renos
Spanoudes; Sibongile Mngoma; Taryn Henning; Tebogo Ditinti; Thabiso Tshabalala,
and Thea Gafin
Dance, Physical Theatre And Ballet 2022
Ignatius Van Heerden (Convenor); Debbie Rakusin; Kelsey
Middleton; Owen Lonzar, and Sonia Radebe
Independent- / Fringe Theatre 2022
Chet Diepraam (Convenor); Gillian Wittstock; Gregg Pettigrew;
Lehlohonolo Peega; Lesego Moalafi, and Thamsanqa Mbongo
Tertiary- / Incubator Theatre 2022
Johan van der Merwe (Convenor); Lihan Pretorius; Lungile
Themba; Ratanang Mogotsi; Renos Spanoudes, and Thabiso Tshabalala
Children’s Theatre (Supported By Assitej) 2022
Thea Gafin (Convenor); Chubeka Nongwana; Darren Meltz; Ratanang
Mogotsi; Shira Milstein, and Tsholofelo Shounyane
For more information contact Chris Avant Smith on
Straight2media@gmail.co, or call or Whatsapp: 0610609257
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