Author Profile
MIKE VAN GRAAN
 MIKE
VAN GRAAN is an award-winning Cape Town playwright/producer and a
leading arts activist.
Since graduating with a BA Hons in Drama from UCT, he has held many
positions in the arts and culture sector on a broad range of committees
and arts groups, including the Congress of South African Writers, the
Theatre Action Group, the Community Arts Project, the Curriculum
Development Project, the Performing Arts Network, the National Arts
Coalition, Network for Arts & Culture S Africa and the
International Network for Cultural Diversity. He was also Special
Adviser to the first Minister of Arts & Culture after the 1994
election, Dr Ben Ngubane.
Mike has written ten plays, most recently Green Man Flashing, Hostile Takeover, Mixed Metaphors, Two to Tango and Some Mothers’ Sons, and is busy on
four more commissions. He has won the Fleur du Cap Award for Best
Indigenous Script, the Molteno Silver Medal, the Jury Award and the
Arts & Culture Trust Arts Journalist of the Year prize. In
1997 the Mail & Guardian
listed him among the Top 100 South Africans, and in August 2006 Insig featured him as one of the
top ten most influential people in the arts on its list of the 50 most
influential people in S Africa.
His company, Article 27 Arts & Culture Consultants, currently
offers services in arts and culture, event management, policy research
and development, and arts admin training.
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