| ISPA International Citation of Merit Recipient - Lara Foot |
ISPA Award Recipient Lara Foot2023 International Citation of Merit Recipient Lara Foot is a multi-award-winning playwright, director and producer. She is the CEO and artistic director of the Baxter Theatre Centre; a former Rolex protégé to Sir Peter Hall in the prestigious Rolex Mentor and Protégé programme, as well as a Sundance Fellow. She is also executive producer of, amongst others, the international hit productions Mies Julie and The Fall. In 2016 she was the Featured Artist at the 43rd National Arts Festival. Lara has directed over 70 professional productions, most of which have been new South African plays. With a host of South African theatre accolades to her name, her own hard-hitting plays tackle social issues in South Africa and these have earned her great respect and recognition locally and internationally. Tshepang, Hear And Now, Reach, Karoo Moose, Solomon and Marion, Fishers of Hope and The Inconvenience of Wings are just a few of her plays which have won multiple awards, have toured internationally with great success and which have been published. She has transformed The Baxter’s development programme, the Zabalaza Theatre Festival, to become recognised and respected as one of the most vital and important platforms of its kind in South Africa. In 2021 Lara adapted and directed the stage production of Life and Times of Michael K for the opening of the Teater der Welt Festival at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus and at The Baxter, which huge success. The production returned to Germany for four more seasons in early 2022 and will transfer to the Galway Festival, Ireland, in July 2023. In 2022 she received great praise for her adaptation and direction of Othello, for the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus. |
