YVETTE HARDIE is a theatre director, producer, educator and arts advocate. She is national director of ASSITEJ SA and served as President of ASSITEJ from 2011-2021, networking across 100 countries. She was responsible for hosting the 19^th ASSITEJ World Congress & Festival, Cradle of Creativity, for the first time in Africa, in 2017. She is valued for her work in Arts Education, having written national curricula and textbooks for Dramatic/Creative Arts, and has taught widely within secondary and tertiary contexts. She was Head of Drama at the National School of the Arts. She produced the award-winning Colonnades Theatre Lab production, Truth in Translation, which toured widely over several years.  She was awarded the Mickey Miner Award for Lifetime Achievement from IPAY (International Performing Arts for Youth) for her contribution to theatre for young audiences locally and globally. She is also Deputy Chairperson of Im4theArts and of STAND Foundation.

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Theatre-making, Playwriting, Directing, Acting, Theatre for Young Audiences, Inclusivity, Arts education, Arts for reconciliation, Voice and speech, Lessac techniques, Creative Arts, Dramatic Arts