Amy Jephta is a playwright and director. She obtained two degrees from the University of Cape Town: a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Performance in 2009 as well as a Masters of Arts in Theatre and Performance in 2013. Her research interests include dramaturgy, new play development, and ethnographic playwriting. She was the first national recipient of the Baxter Theatre/TAAC Emerging Theatre Director’s Bursary and is an alumni of the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab in New York.Amy has worked as a mentor to community theatre groups based in Kwazulu-Natal as part of the Twist Theatre project, has been part of the South African New Plays Writing Programme at Wits University, and has been a voice and acting lecturer at City Varsity in Cape Town and the Woodward School for Contemporary Art in Vancouver and an invited lecturer at CUNY, New York. As a playwright, her work has been published in South Africa, performed at the Riksteatern in Stockholm, at the Bush Theatre in London and at the Royal Court Theatre. She teaches Afrikaans bilingual acting and is a lecturer at UCT’s Drama Department.