Nadia Davids is an award winning South African playwright. She was born in Cape Town in 1977 and is well known internationally. She is also a theatre scholar and has served as visiting lecturer at UC Berkeley in California and New York University . In 2008 she received her PhD in theatre from the University of Cape Town. Her dissertation is titled Inherited Memories; Performing the Archive. It is an in-depth analysis of the performative effects on forced removals under apartheid and their connections to memory and loss. In addition she has received two A.W. Mellon Fellowships to assist with her research. Tourists who are visiting South Africa may want to enjoy a fine dinner at one of the best Cape Town restaurants before spending the evening at the theatre. Another popular options for tourists and locals alike is to attend a production in a venue that also has a restaurant. This makes the perfect evening also extremely convenient.
Davids has written five plays, and her works have been produced in Africa, North America and Europe. She has been described as one of the brightest new talents to emerge from South Africa. Her 2002 play, At Her Feet, was nominated for the Noma Award for best book published in Africa. For the same play she won the Fleur de Cap Award for best new director. Her latest play, CISSIE, is about the life of Cape Town activist Cissie Gool and debuted last year at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. In addition to her other achievements, in 1938 Cissie Gool was the first black woman to be elected to the Cape Town City Council. Davids is currently participating in the Women’s Project Playwright’s Lab for 2008 through 2010. She also writes a bi-monthly column for the New York based publication, The Brooklyn Rail. In addition to playwrighting and columns she writes short stories. Between spending her time guest lecturing, directing and writing, Davids lives in South Africa and the United States.
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