Awards & Recognition

Plays

The dogs must be crazy  

  • Selected as a “Hot off the Fringe” production at the National Arts Festival, 1991. 

Some of our best friends are cultural workers 

  • Selected as a “Hot off the Fringe” production at the National Arts Festival, 1992.

Dinner Talk 

  • Winner of the Fleur du Cap Theatre Award for Best New Script, 1997. 

Green Man Flashing

  • Jury winner, UCT/Performing Arts Network of South Africa (PANSA) Festival of Reading of New Writing, 2003
  • Nominee: Best New South African Script, Naledi Theatre Awards, 2005
  • Nominee: Best New Script, Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards, 2005
  • Winner: Proyecto 34 Degrees South, Theatre in Translation Project (for Argentinian and South African playwrights), 2012
  • Prescribed text for IEB Schools

Hostile Takeover/Just Business

  • Audience Award winner as Hostile Takeover, PANSA Festival of Reading of New Writing, 2004
  • Winner as Just Business of a Standard Bank Encore Ovation Award, National Arts Festival, 2012

Mixed Metaphors

  • Nominee: Best New South African Script Produced, Naledi Theatre Awards, 2006
  • Nominee: Best New Script, Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards, 2006
  • Nomination for Lindiwe Matshikiza, Best Performance by a Newcomer (Female), Naledi Theatre Awards, 2006

Two to Tango

  • Jury Runner-up, NLDTF/PANSA Festival of Reading of New Writing, Satire and Comedy, 2005

Some Mothers’ Sons

  • Jury Runner-up, NLDTF/PANSA Festival of Reading of New Writing, Contemporary Drama, 2005
  • Audience Award winner, NLDTF/PANSA Festival of Reading of New Writing, Contemporary Drama, 2005
  • Best Director Award, Jerry Mofokeng, NDLDT/PANSA Festival of Reading of New Writing, 2005

Brothers in Blood

  • Winner: Best New South African Play Produced, Naledi Theatre Award, 2009
  • Nominee: Karabo Kgokong, Best Supporting Actor, Naledi Theatre Awards, 2009
  • Standard Bank Silver Ovation Award winner, Greg Homann, Director, National Arts Festival, 2012

Die Generaal/The General

  • Winner: Anglogold Ashanti Award for Best New Afrikaans Script, Aardklop Arts Festival, 2007
  • Winner: Best New Script, Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards, 2008

Bafana Republic

  • Winner: Best One Person Show, SA Comedy Awards, 2007
  • Nomination: Lindiwe Matshikiza, Best Actress, Aardklop Festival, 2007
  • One of top six “Pick of the Fringe” productions, as selected by Adrienne Sichel, 2007

Bafana Republic 2: Extra Time

  • Winner: Best One Person Show, SA Comedy Awards, 2008

Iago’s Last Dance

  • Nominee: Best New Script, Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards, 2010
  • Nominee: Mbulelo Grootboom, Best Supporting Actor, Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards, 2010

Rainbow Scars

  • Winner: Standard Bank Ovation Award, National Arts Festival, 2013
  • Nominee: Mari Borstlap, Best Lighting Design, Naledi Theatre Awards, 2013
  • Nominee: Kertrice Maitisa, Best Newcomer, Naledi Theatre Awards, 2013
  • Nominee: Charl-Johan Lingenfelder, Best Score, Naledi Theatre Awards, 2013
  • Nominee: Best Supporting Actor, Mbulelo Grootboom, Naledi Theatre Awards, 2013
  • Nominee: Best Director, Lara Bye, Naledi Theatre Awards, 2013
  • Nominee: Best Production of a Play, Naledi Theatre Awards, 2013

Pay Back the Curry

  • Winner: Daniel Mpilo Richards, Best Newcomer, Naledi Theatre Awards, 2016
  • Nominee: Best New Script, Naledi Theatre Awards, 2016
  • Nominee: Daniel Mpilo Richards, Best Performance in a Revue, Cabaret or One-Person Show, Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards, 2016

When Swallows Cry

  • Winner: Best Production of a Play, Naledi Theatre Awards, 2017
  • Winner: Lesedi Job, Best Director, Naledi Theatre Awards, 2017
  • Winner: Best New Script, Naledi Theatre Awards, 2017
  • Nominee: Lesedi Job, Best New Director, Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards, 2018

State Fracture

  • Winner: Daniel Mpilo Richards, Standard Bank Ovation Award for Outstanding Performance, National Arts Festival, 2017
  • Winner: Standard Bank Silver Ovation Award, National Arts Festival, 2017

Land Acts

  • Nominee: Daniel Mpilo Richards, Best Performance in a Revue, Cabaret or One-Person Show, Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards, 2018
  • Nominee: Best New South African Script, Naledi Theatre Awards, 2018

Another One's Bread

  • Best New South African Script, Naledi Theatre Awards, 2018

General

Artist and other residencies

  • UCT Drama Department, Cape Town, 2006
  • Theater de Appel and Kosmopolis, The Hague, 2008
  • Artscape Associate Playwright, Cape Town, 2011-2014
  • Robert Bosch Academy, Berlin, 2016/17
  • Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Florida, 2017
  • University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 2019

Miscellaneous

  • Arts and Culture Journalist of the Year for The Cultural Weapon, 2001
  • Cape Tercentenary Foundation’s Molteno Silver Medal for Contribution to the Performing Arts, 2001
  • Inaugural Festival Artist, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, 2013
  • Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture Award, 2018
  • PhD (honoris causa) (Honorary Doctorate), University of Pretoria, 2018