It is with great pleasure that the Board of The Naledi Theatre Awards announce the judging panels for the 2022 year in review, which will commence on 01 January 2022 and run until 31 December 2022.
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 our industry slowly opens up, we 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
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
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
Thea Gafin
DANCE, PHYSICAL THEATRE AND BALLET 2022
Ignatius Van Heerden – Convenor
Debbie Rakusin
Kelsey Middleton
Owen Lonzar
Sonia Radebe
INDEPENDENT- / FRINGE THEATRE 2022
Chet Diepraam – Convenor
Gillian Wittstock
Gregg Pettigrew
Lehlohonolo Peega
Lesego Moalafi
Thamsanqa Mbongo
TERTIARY- / INCUBATOR THEATRE 2022
Johan van der Merwe – Convenor
Lihan Pretorius
Lungile Themba
Ratanang Mogotsi
Renos Spanoudes
Thabiso Tshabalala
CHILDREN’S THEATRE (SUPPORTED BY ASSITEJ) 2022
Thea Gafin – Convenor
Chubeka Nongwana
Darren Meltz
Ratanang Mogotsi
Shira Milstein
Tsholofelo Shounyane
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By Chris Avant Smith
Director: Public Relations, Strategy and Marketing
(Naledi Theatre Awards)
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