Greg Karvellas
Greg Karvellas has, for the past 15 years, worked as a director, producer and production manager in the South African theatre industry. With his long-time collaborator, writer Louis Viljoen, he has co-produced The abusers, The bile boys and The frontiersmen, and directed the hit play Champ, which enjoyed successful seasons at the Artscape Arena Theatre, the Fugard Studio Theatre, the Grahamstown National Arts Festival and the Edinburgh Festival in 2013. Other directing credits include Greg having been the associate director on A human being died that night, written by Nicholas Wright, under director Jonathan Munby, which ran in Cape Town and Johannesburg, as well as at the Hampstead Theatre in London and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in New York in 2014.
Last year, Greg’s directing credits included David Mamet’s Oleanna, Athol Fugard’s The road to Mecca, Joshua Harmon’s Significant other and the return season of Lee Hall’s Shakespeare in love (adapted from the Academy Award-winning screenplay by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman). In 2017, Greg directed Louis Viljoen’s new work, The eulogists. In 2016, he directed Bad Jews by Joshua Harmon, Contractions by Mike Bartlett, Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park and The father by Florian Zeller, starring Marius Weyers.
Greg is the Fugard Theatre’s first appointed artistic director.
- Photo: Claude Barnardo
Athol Fugard’s Statements after an arrest under the Immorality Act showing at the Fugard Theatre
2019-10-10"This is an utterly compelling production that cautions us on the devastating impact of human rights abuse, in whichever form it comes, and hopefully makes us more understanding of our common humanity."