Mandie van der Spuy, a FynArts Advisory Board member, will present the Award to Janice. The presentation will be followed by Bio-Natter, an informal discussion between Janice and the audience.

Janice’s remarkable national and international 55-year career spans drama, comedy, indigenous stories, Classics, Shakespeare, Opera, Musicals, and her cherished annual tradition of Pantomime. She is celebrated for transforming classic fairy tales like Beauty and the Beast into her unique South African Panto style. Her adaptations extend to literary works such as Chris van Wyk’s Shirley, Goodness and Mercy, and Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities. She has also brought to life productions such as The Color Purple which toured internationally.Janice has been the chosen South African director for new works by Athol Fugard, including Exits and Entrances and The Blue Iris, and John Kani’s plays such as Nothing But The Truth. For the Royal Shakespeare Company, she has directed, the acclaimed productions of Athol Fugard’s Hello and Goodbye, John Kani’s Kunene and the King and Shakespeare’s The Tempest with her life-long friend, colleague and collaborator, Sir Antony Sher. A passion for Shakespeare has driven much of her very active professional, educational and directing career. For Janice it has always been important to present innovative, imaginative, relevant and diverse local and global entertainment, and she hopes that will be her legacy.