Fugard
Fugard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Athol Fugard (1932–2025), South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director * Lisa Fugard, South African-born American actress and writer, daughter of Athol and Sheila *Sheila Meiring Fugard Sheila Meiring Fugard (born 1932 in England) is a writer of short stories and plays and the ex-wife of South African playwright Athol Fugard. Personal history Born in Birmingham, England in 1932, Sheila Meiring moved with her parents to South A ...

Athol Fugard
Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard (; 11 June 19328 March 2025) was a South African playwright, novelist, actor and director. Widely regarded as South Africa's greatest playwright and acclaimed as "the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world" by ''Time'' magazine in 1985, he published more than thirty plays. He is best known for his political and penetrating plays opposing the system of apartheid, some of which have been adapted to film. His novel '' Tsotsi'' was adapted as a film of the same name, which won an Academy Award in 2005. Three plays he wrote, and two plays he co-authored, were nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. Fugard also served as an adjunct professor of playwriting, acting and directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego. Fugard received many awards, honours and honorary degrees, including the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver from the government of South Africa in 2005 "for his excellent contri ...
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Lisa Fugard
Lisa Fugard is a South African writer and actor. She was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in 1961, the only child of playwright Athol Fugard and novelist Sheila Meiring Fugard. From 1980 she pursued an acting career in the United States, and in 2006 wrote her debut novel ''Skinner's Drift.'' Career Fugard moved to New York City in 1980 to pursue an acting career, and has garnered numerous stage and film roles, including Isabel Dyson in the original production of her father's ''My Children! My Africa!.'' Since 1992, Fugard has written many short stories for literary magazines, and articles for ''The New York Times'' travel section. In January 2006, she wrote the novel ''Skinner's Drift'', a story of a daughter's return from the United States to her father's rural Afrikaner community in post-Apartheid South Africa. The novel was a finalist for the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the runner up for the Dayton Literary Peace prize. She has one son and current ...
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