SELECTED ARTISTS
Nieke Lombard
Nieke Lombard is an actress and theatre maker specialising in puppetry. She has been professionally based in Cape Town for two and a half years after completing her Honours Cum Laude at the University of the Free State in 2011.
She hails from Bloemfontein but after interning for Handspring Puppet Company in her fourth year (as part of her thesis in Visual Theatre, Object Theatre and Adult Puppetry) she decided to make the professional leap to Cape Town. Nieke wrote, designed and acted in her fourth year production “Elnora & Nirvana” which garnered her three awards, namely: Best Free State Production Vryfees 2012, Slurpie Kanna for Best Upcoming Artist ‘Pruttel’, ‘Elnora & Nirvana’ KKNK 2013, Herrie Kanna for Groundbreaking Work ‘Elnora & Nirvana’ KKNK 2013 and has since been toured professionally.
She has designed and directed puppetry for a visual production at the main festival of the Klein Karoo National 3 Festival called “Wentel” and is currently designing and directing a puppet for “Morsig” for a youth theatre production. Recently she was nominated for a Fiesta for Best Upcoming Artist.