About

Inge is a South African actor, director and theatre maker. She has been active in the theatre industry since 2016. Highlights include roles in My Children! My Africa! (dir. Mahlatsi Mokgonyana) and Tweespoor (dir. Juanita Swanepoel) which Inge adapted from the Afrikaans short prose text of the same title by Helena Gunter. She founded private production company Calaringe Productions to produce the play and her performance as Tilla earned her a best emerging artist nomination at the Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees.

In 2025, the company produced a lauded revival of the solo performance piece A Girl Called Owl by Jon Keevy, with Larissa Crafford-Lazarus as Owl, directed by Inge. Also in development, is a new work titled Môre is Môre - a clown inspired piece that had its inception at RADA for the MA Lab Works Festival.

Inge finds great joy stepping into teaching roles. She spent a year as teaching fellow at NYU. In SA she has coached numerous students in preparation for practical drama exams, and co-directed Paula Vogel’s The Long Christmas Ride Home for Crawford International Pretoria (Best Direction, FEDA 2024).

She has a background in classical music and ballet, and aside from the performing arts, she enjoys cooking, painting, growing roses and has completed 500hrs of yoga teacher training.

She holds a BFA with honors in theatre from New York University and an MA in Theatre Lab from RADA.

As a maker I am committed to creating actor-centric theatre. I believe an audience is most malleable when the person bearing the story is right in front of them, breathing the same air.

I act because I feel a responsibility to speak. I speak for mostly imaginary people who, if they lived in the real world, would not get up on a platform and speak for themselves – and if they did, would not have an audience full of strangers who all agreed to be there and listen.  I am interested in making theatre that communicates something about people, for people, through people - that we may know ourselves only ever more.