Ashraf Johaardien is an award-winning playwright, columnist, performer and arts manager. Mail & Guardian

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Biography

He was born in Cape Town

Cape Town

Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...

 in 1974 and was schooled in South Africa and the UK. He holds an International Baccalaureate from United World College of the Atlantic in Wales and a Bachelor of Arts Degree and an English Honors Degree from The University of Cape Town

University of Cape Town

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His plays include Coloured Son X, Salaam Stories/SALAAM, Happy Endings Are Extra, STRIPPED, Miracle*, Ecce Homo! adapted from Tim Miller’s Body Blows and The Quiet Violence of Dreams based on the novel by K. Sello Duiker. His work has been performed and produced at mainstream theatres and festivals in South Africa, Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands and the USA. His work has been published by Compress, Just Done Productions Publishing, Oxford University Press, Waverly Books (Glasgow) and Umuzi (Random House). He also writes The Perfumed Closet, a monthly column published in The Pink Tongue (Independent Newspapers).

He currently lives in Johannesburg

Johannesburg

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where he is the General Manager of the Arts & Culture Trust (ACT).

Plays and Publications

Coloured Son X
Baxter Theatre Centre, CT, SA (1998)

Circle East Theatre Company, NY, USA (2001)

Published by Compress [ISBN 1919833064 | ISBN 978-1919833064]



Salaam Stories/SALAAM

Spier/PANSA Festival of New Writing (2002)

Theatre Row, New York, USA (2002)

Spier Summer Arts Festival (2003)

University of the Western Cape (2003)

Baxter Theatre Centre (2003 & 2004)

Darling Festival (2004)

Oval House Theatre, London (2006)

Grahamstown National Arts Festival (2006)

South African National Schools Festival (2006)

The Wits Theatre 969 Festival (2006)

State Theatre (2006)

Artscape Theatre Centre (2006)

Montecasino (2008)

Baxter Theatre Centre(2008)

Afrovibes (Netherlands 2008)

Published by Just Done Production Publishing [ISBN 1-920169-26-1 | ISBN 978-1-920169-26-8]

Published by Oxford University Press [ISBN 978-0-19-576799-5]



Happy Endings Are Extra

Baxter Theatre Centre (2003)

Grahamstown National Arts Festival (2004)

Standard Bank National Arts Festival (2004)

Artscape Theatre Centre (2005)

Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival (2006)

Diversionary Theatre, San Diego CA (2007)

Bailiwick Rep Theatre, Chicago IL (2007)

Published by Just Done Productions Publishing [ISBN 1-920169-24-5 | ISBN 978-1-920169-24-4]



Miracle*

Commissioned by the Glasgow Arts Council

Published in the anthology Freedom Spring by Waverley Books (Glasgow) [ISBN 1902407334]



STRIPPED

Baxter Theatre Centre (2005)



Yes, I Am!: Writing by South African gay men

Compiled by Robin Malan and Ashraf Johaardien (2010)

Published by Junkets Publishers [EAN: 9780520458283]

Adaptations

Ecce Homo!

Adapted from Body Blows: Six Perforformances by Tim Miller

Grahamstown National Arts Festival (2006)

The Wits Theatre 969 Festival (2006)



The Quiet Violence of Dreams

Based on the novel by K. Sello Duiker

Grahamstown National Arts Festival (2008)

South African National Schools Festival (2008)