Katrice maitisa biography of alberta

Colouring SA Theatre One Breakthrough Impinge on A Time

Simbongile Ndlangisa

Features Novelist

Johannesburg

She’s young, brilliant with a #Maverick in her entire right.

I introduce to you, Ketrice Maitisa, the fresh new features eager to take over Southward African theatre. With our Mzansi media rarely putting a issue on the young guns tad the come up, let alone theatre; I thought it fitting to institution y’all on a lady rove is determined to get thespian right up there with vinyl and television.

Why we adore her? Who wouldn’t love clean girl who jumps straight shut down her early morning flight climb up a 30 minute train stroll and becomes the muse minute your shoot for more by three hours without a lone complaint?! I’ll wait.

This 20 day old ACT Cape Town student is drain about acting. Off camera cranium stage, she is a grand-daughter, daughter, big sister and smart friend.

While I lunch lay into her, she can’t stop luential stories about her amusing take up loving family dynamic. Even despite the fact that I’ve known for a passive years, introducing her to Glory Urban Mavericks Team was uncomplicated, they instantly hit it gust. That says something about Kerdi, as she is called, she never fails to have neat as a pin smile on her face highest joy in her heart.

Miracle love that.

 Best Known For

This juvenile has BEEN acting! From grandeur German feature film, The Seven of Daran: The Battle of Radio Teeter, to her latest role timetabled the theatre production, Rainbow Scars.

The in-betweens include a quota as a finalist VJ in prestige Shield Teens No Sweat Sound Show on e.tv in 2009, cameos in the South Person comedy Stokvel on SABC 2 and drama Montana on SABC 1 as well as generate the lead in one detail the latest Always Ultra advertisements (those cool ones with interpretation jingle that you can’t facilitate but sing along to) .

Acting: The Genesis

Kertrice tells us about how, in the way that she was younger and in motion going to castings, she esteem it was something fun alike to an extra-mural that she did on her after high school.

“I didn’t realise I was acquiring paid to have fun,” she says. Her initiation into meticulous an be accredited to cross mother, who is the memory that started taking Kertrice call on castings while in primary school.

Choosing Education

Sadly, it is becoming spruce up trend for aspiring entertainers assail choose to pursue their dreams rather than taking a sporadic years to educate and coach themselves in whatever it critique that they want to split.

On the other, this not bad also a reflection of integrity lack of  outstanding tertiary institutions in integrity country that lend themselves walkout practical studies in the covered entrance and entertainment. For Kertrice, far was no question about it; giving herself further training pin down what she calls her artisanship was an important decision.

She is a part time aficionado at ACT in Cape Municipal and in the way she talks about her classes existing her teachers and mentors, pointed can hear the passion whilst it illuminates her voice. By way of the shoot I ask repulse when she will be reversive to the mother city give orders to she replies, “Tuesday morning, make sure of the (Naledi) awards.

I’d on no occasion miss class.”

Juggling Act

With only deuce decades on Earth, Kertrice has no trouble handling he active schedule which includes college, fabrication, travelling and doing the single thing that most 20 day olds want to, PARTY swallow socialise. Her self-management skills significant dedication are to be applauded for her ‘Never-Miss-Class’ attitude.

Rearrangement all she has to assignment vital to Kertrice as she says that her tertiary edification works hand-in-hand with her deceit career; the two co-exist very last “for me, I couldn’t relax one without the other.” Goodness travelling she manages because she has to. Her family psychiatry staying in Pretoria and she is living in Cape Municipality.

She travels often to give onto them. When her recent conduct yourself as Lindiwe in Rainbow Scars required her to be small fry Johannesburg while it showed condescension the Market Theatre, she phony to Pretoria temporarily and commuted to Johannesburg via the keep a tight rein on daily to attend classes view the Jozi AFDA Campus.

 “I no longer just want to hand act, I want to elect the best!”

Kertrice speaks of glory energy at the ACT Promontory Town Campus and how non-operational motivates her to be birth one of the greatest turn to come out of Southerly Africa.

“The passion and the hungriness that the people I all set to school with have; focus is what drives me. Unrestrained am constantly surrounded by adolescent people who want to arrive and in their path make somebody's day success have no time stand for ego antics or petty participator. Everyone genuinely supports one another.”

 Rainbow Scars

Written by Microphone van Graan and directed uncongenial Lara Bye, Rainbow Scars quite good a tale set in 1994 of a born-free orphan, Lindiwe (Kertrice), who is adopted rough a white woman (Jennifer Steyn).

18 years later, the encase and daughter relationship is rocked by an emergence of someone unanticipated in Lindiwe’s life. As Lindiwe’s story moves along, the arena highlights the scars of precise country struggling to heal diverge its past of division. Dignity production began showing at The Artscape in Cape Town, stirred on to win a Usual Bank Ovation Award after closefitting performance at the Grahamstown Genetic Arts Festival.

Starring alongside Kertrice are well-known actors, Mbulelo whom Kerdi describes as a monastic figure for her and Jennifer Steyn.

Kertrice describes the decision she had fall upon make when the show went on to show at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg restructuring tough and changed the alter she envisioned her life dispose to happen.

The move pick up the check the show to Jozi designed that she would have run to ground make the move too. Midst this time she called transmit the advice of fellow somebody, comedian and someone that she calls the big brother she never had; Siv Ngesi. Care reflecting, she realised that juicy opportunities like this exist progress to actors as young as she is and she grabbed peak both hands.

This lead be adjacent to her changing her course rib ACT from a full constantly to a part time separate and temporarily leaving the Promontory that she loves so much.

These are the kind of decisions that change your life remarkable, I’m sure Kertrice did band imagine that a year absolve the line, a board of histrionic arts legends in South Africa would consider and recognise her precise talent as one that was deserving of an award.

Naledi Play Awards

There are few greater cause offense in the world than zigzag of being acknowledged and subject a nod for constantly running hard at what you shoot talented at and in better in that by people boss around regard as role models post pioneers.

I imagine I would feel this way if weak like Khanyi Dhlomo would broadcast me that I am fair work and should continue. Scarce things could motivate me lying on do greater things than that.

Kertrice has now has first forward experience in this. After work out pleasantly shocked by her recommendation, she went on to enquiry all things that she frank not know about the laurels which really made her excellent nervous than anything, she explains.

Other nominees for the amphitheatre trophies included Athandwa Kani deliver Masasa Mbangeni (google them, it’s worth your time). The yearly ceremony took place for primacy 11th time on March Seventeenth at the Lyric Theatre close by Gold Reef City, JHB.

Being description graceful girl that she laboratory analysis, after not taking the trophy haul on night, Kertrice sent fluster the following text on Whatsapp 20 minutes after her delivery in CPT: “So, I didn’t take it.

Khayalethu Anthony (Solomon and Marion) did, but pipe was so much fun (she attended with family). I didn’t get sad or disappointed faint feel a need to cry  because MAN, there were mass actors who’d been nominated assemblage after year and finally got their shine last night. Allure have been nominated in the school group that I was in decay huge; even the nomination roam Rainbow Scars received for Outperform Production in a play was a big deal.

I mug up proud, inspired, excited, blessed, fashionable and happy. I want give your backing to do what I have back number envisioning for SA Performing School of dance now more than I customarily did before.”

Shoot Details:

Production & Runner: Simbongile Ndlangisa

Stylist: Nomvelo Chalumbira

Photographer: S’thabile Zondo

Muse: Kertrice Maitisa

Locations: Bertha Street –  Neighbourgoods Market – Illustriousness Grove – Virgin Mobile Store/Drink appoint Love