Fred Abrahamse

Fred Abrahamse is one of South Africa’s most prominent and prolific theatre directors. His work is presented regularly on stages across South Africa, Europe, and The United States of America. He is a co-founder and co-director of Abrahamse & Meyer Productions.

TRAINING: University of Cape Town Performer’s Diploma

THEATRE: Highlights include Shakespeare’s Hamlet [two productions], Macbeth, Othello, Richard III, Romeo & Juliet, Much Ado About      Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream [four     productions], Shakespeare’s R&J; Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, The Night of the Iguana, Kingdom of Earth, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, Stairs to the Roof, In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, The Knightly Quest, Hotel Plays, One Arm; Steven Berkoff’s Decadence, Greek, The Secret Love Life of Ophelia; Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins and Sweeney Todd; Lorraine Hansbury’s Les Blancs, Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping & F*cking and Over There; Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms, Peter Shaffer’s Equus, David Hare’s The Vertical Hour, Kramer & Petersen’s District 6 – The Musical, Noël Coward’s Private Lives and Present Laughter also Angels in America, Grease, Return to the Forbidden Planet, Star+Crossed, Bangbroek Mountain, In Briefs, Beautiful Thing, Epstein – The Man Who Made The Beatles.

OPERA: Asman’s Trial By Media,  Viardot’s Cendrillon, Themming’s Sacred Bones and       Mozart’s Requiem.

AWARDS: Fleur du Cap Best Director for Contested Bodies, District 6 – The Musical and Beautiful Thing; Fleur du Cap Best Set Design for Assassins, Kingdom of Earth and The Lady Aoi; Fleur du Cap Best Costume Design The Lady Aoi; Naledi Best Costume Design Macbeth; Vita Awards Best Director The Glass Menagerie, Beautiful Thing, Shopping & F*cking; St. Louis Theatre Circle Award Best Director Nomination Stairs to the Roof. Earlier this year Fred received the Maltino Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre from the Cape Khula Foundation