FTH:K appoints two new managers

Botto will coordinate all aspects related to the tour, from growing the network of schools and organisations that FTH:K visits, to being the contact point for all parties involved, planning itineraries and managing the logistics of the tour.

Botto brings with her a wealth of experience from her time as an SAA Customer Service Manager and her many years of working in the theatre world as a stage and production manager, technician and performer. She graduated from UCT in 2008 with a BA in Theatre and Performance and it was during her time studying that she first met FTH:K founders, Rob Murray and Tanya Surtees, working with them on FTH:K's production GUMBO at the Intimate Theatre.

Sharing the same vision

Mohoto is a theatremaker, singer, writer and vocal practitioner and studied Drama and English at UCT with classical singing as a minor and has an Honours degree in Directing and Education. She is a Voice and Applied Theatre teacher at New Africa Theatre Academy, where last year she directed Township Safari for Josh Wilder's I am the innercity. This was a directing project with Wilder, a USA-based actor and director, that explored notions of American blackness and South African blackness.

"We are delighted to welcome these two dynamic individuals to the team," says FTH:K CEO Ana Lemmer. "They both share a similar vision to us about how an arts organisation should be run and in the short time they have been with us, they have already made an impact on our day-to-day activities."

FTH:K embarks on its national education tour with the production OfficeBLOCK on 16 April in Kwa-Zulu Natal. Between then and 8 September, they will visit festivals and institutions in Mpumalanga, the Free State, Western Cape, Gauteng and a run at the Baxter Theatre Centre in Cape Town from 10 to 21 July 2012.