Biography
Amy Jephta comes from Cape Town and studied theatre and performance at the University of Cape Town, completing her bachelor's degree in 2009 and her master's in 2013. She works as a playwright, screenwriter and director and teaches at her former university. Her plays include Kitchen, All Who Pass, Other People's Lives and Kristalvlakte, written in Afrikaans, which won her the Eugène Marais Prize in 2017. In 2019 she received the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Theatre. In 2015 she co-founded the African Women Playwrights Network. Her play A Good House, about a suburban community in which a shack suddenly appears, opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London in January 2025 as a co-production with Bristol Old Vic and the Market Theatre in Johannesburg.
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