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ATHOL FUGARD has been working in the theatre as a playwright, director and actor since the mid-fifties in South Africa, England and the United States. His plays include Train Driver, No-Good Friday, Non-Gogo, Blood Knot, Hello and Goodbye, People Are Living There, Boesman and Lena, Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, Dimetos, The Island, A Lesson From Aloes, "MASTER HAROLD"...and the boys., The Road to Mecca, A Place With the Pigs, My Children! My Africa!, Playland, Valley Song, The Captain's Tiger, Sorrows & Rejoicings, Exits and Entrances, Victory and Coming Home. He has been seen on stage in South Africa, London, Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theatres in the U.S. Film credits include The Road to Mecca, Gandhi, The Killing Fields, Meeting with Remarkable Men, Marigolds in August, Boesman and Lena and The Guest. He has written one novel, Tsotsi, a film version of which was made in South Africa and recently won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, as well as the Michael Powell Award and the Standard Life Audience Award at the 2005 Edinburgh Film Festival, the People's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival, and the Audience Award at the Los Angeles AFI Film Festival. He has also published his autobiographical memoirs Cousin.
Bio as of October, 2010.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
Downstage Center (audio)
Athol Fugard - October, 2010 - Listen Now.
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
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