Marcel Meyer

TRAINING: Vocational training in Dramatic Art at the Pro Arte High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and  a B-Tech  Degree [Cum Laude] in Musical Theatre, Pretoria Tech.

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THEATRE: Hamlet [Hamlet], Macbeth [Macbeth], Othello [Iago], Romeo & Juliet [Romeo], Richard III [Richard III], A Midsummer Night’s Dream [Oberon/Theseus], Antony & Cleopatra [Octavian Caesar], Much Ado About Nothing [Don John], Shakespeare’s R&J [Romeo], Dame Janet Suzman’s Hamlet [Rosencrantz]; Leading roles in Tennessee Williams’ The Night of the Iguana, The Glass Menagerie, Sweet Bird of Youth, Kingdom of Earth, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, The Day on Which A Man Dies, In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, One Arm, The Hotel Plays; Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins [John Wilkes Booth], Noël Coward’s Private Lives [Elyot], Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms, Yukio Mishima’s The Lady Aoi, Mark Ravenhill’s Over There.

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BALLET: Guest Artist for Cape Town City Ballet playing Scrooge in their production of Veronica Paeper’s A Christmas Carol.

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AWARDS: Nine Fleur du Cap nominations for Best Costume design, winning the 2011 award for Richard III, 2019 Naledi Award for Best Costume Design for Macbeth, St. Louis Theatre Circle Awards nominations for Best Set and Best Costume Design for Tennessee Williams’ Stairs to the Roof. 2019 Best Actor Naledi nomination for his performance in Macbeth. Best Supporting Actor Fleur du Cap nomination for his performance as The Gentleman Caller in The Glass Menagerie.