Karen Jeynes
General Secretary of the Performing Arts Network of South Africa (PANSA)
 

Karen Jeynes is one of the exciting new voices in South African theatre. She has worked on numerous events and festivals. More recently, she was the co-ordinator of the Spier Performing Arts Festival, ‘Infecting the City’, and is the Director of the 48 Hours Festival in Cape Town. She will be bringing the Short&Sweet Festival to South Africa in 2009.

Her plays include Everybody Else (is fucking perfect; Go Home Affairs; and Laying Blame a one-person show features at this year’s JakArt Festival. Forthcoming plays include I’ll have what she’s having, sky too big and Getting There.

She also teaches scriptwriting for the South African Writers College. In her spare time, she works as a freelance journalist/copywriter/editor Karen is  General Secretary of the Performing Arts Network of South Africa (PANSA) Western Cape, theatre co-ordinator for the South African Scriptwriters Union (SASWU) and member of the South African Freelancers Association (SAFREA) and the International Centre for Women Playwrights (ICWP).

She has been working on her epic play ‘The Son of God’ for many years and may complete it by 2010. She lives in Cape Town with her (mostly) fabulous husband and two (mostly) adorable sons.