Amy Jephta

Amy Jephta is a South African playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, and teacher. Her work has been published in South Africa, and performed internationally. Her monologue Shoes was performed as part of The Children’s Monologues at the Royal Court Theatre in London and later at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 2017.

In addition to the Royal Court Theatre, her work has been staged at the Bush Theatre, Jermyn Street Theatre, and Theatre503 in London, as well as part of the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. Her work has also been featured at the Riksteatern in Stockholm, Sweden.

Jeptha has mentored community theatre groups in Kwazulu-Natal, participated in the South African New Plays Writing Programme at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and instructed acting and voice at CityVarsity in Cape Town and Simon Fraser University’s School for Contemporary Arts (Woodward’s Building) in Vancouver. She was also a guest lecturer at the City University of New York.

As of 2024, Jeptha serves as a lecturer at the University of Cape Town, specializing in teaching bilingual acting.