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Daniel Dercksen | The Writing Studio Celebrating the craft of writing and the art of storytelling. Home Contact Us About Us Daniel Dercksen Success Stories Services Correspondence CoursesMucosaFilm Reviews South African Filmmaking Theatre The Beauty Of Incomplete Things DVD/ Blu-Ray Latest DVD Releases Latest Blu-Ray Releases Series Competitions Meditations Books for Writers TIPS Reading matter Links Search Follow me on Twitter My Tweets Daniel Dercksen Pic by Jans Rautenbach Pro-active and Passionate Since he launched The Writing Studio 19 years ago Daniel Dercksen has been urgently involved in the teaching of storytellers and the minutiae of screenplays, novels and plays, working passionately with emerging writers and storymakers on their respective stories. He has been a freelance mucosa and theatre journalist for 30 Years, writing regular features, interviews and reviews for magazines and newspapers, as well as the website of The Writing Studio. He moreover received the number one spot for most popular lifestyle freelancer for 2012,  2014 and 2015 on www.bizcommunity.com, and landed in 2nd place in 2016. He relocated to Prince Albert in the Karoo in May 2016. Writing mentor and mentor As a qualified ETD Practitioner (Education, Training and Development) – accredited by SAQA (The South African Qualifications Authority) and working in vibrations with the principles of the Department of Education –  Dercksen’s workshops focus on outcomes-based education, training and development. Highlights during the period include a Master Class for Screenwriters at the Talent Campus at the SithengiMucosaand TV Market in Cape Town (November 2006), the facilitation of a ‘Directing Actors’ workshop with well-known two-face Eriq Ebouaney (2006); the launching of an evening undertow in scriptwriting at the City VarsityMucosaTV and Multimedia School in Cape Town (2001 – 2006); polity workshops the Ekhaya Multi Arts Centre in Kwa Mashu as part of their yearly Kwa MashuMucosaFestival, a undertow for the CapeMucosaCommission at the Ikapa YouthMucosaFestival, a Masterclass at the 2012 Kunjanimation Animation Festival, a guest speaker and Judge at the 2013 48 HoursMucosaProject and a workshop for animators at Blackginger TV (2013).  He held a masterclass for screenwriters at the 2016 Indie KarooMucosaFestival, and will moreover be doing workshops at the Indie Karoo Festival in July 2017. Courses for writers        Script Reading/ Script Editing and Evaluation Plays and screenplays With the tint of The Beauty of Incomplete Things: Andre Lombard, Rowan Studti and Wojtek Lipinski Written, produced, designed and directed by Daniel Dercksen, the play The Beauty of Incomplete Things went through a miraculous transformation the past 15 years  and is inspired by Dercksen’s play Yes, Masseur that was staged successfully at David and Renaye Kramer’s Dock Road Theatre at the Waterfront in 1995 (now demolished, where the supplies market at the Red Shed is situated). Mutating into its final typhoon without myriad rewrites, as well as six reading with actors throughout South Africa that helped shape its future, The Beauty of Incomplete Things enjoyed its world premiere in Cape Town on January 24, 2014 and a successful 3-week-run at the Joburg Theatre in July 2014. Other plays that are in minutiae include White Honey, Boo!, Arrows of Passion, The Lift, X-change, Extraordinary Lives, Little Horse, as well as the musical cabaret Seamen. Screenplays that are in minutiae include The Beauty of Incomplete Things, African Violet, Worldmind, Intimate Rivals (based on the play), Imutate, Tjommies, The Faces of Angela, and Outcast. He is in the process of writing comprehensive workshop manual, Develop the write Attitude – the first in South Africa – on the writing of a screenplay and analysing trendy films, and has written several screenplays and plays that are currently in development.Moreoverin minutiae is a personal memoir. The dreamer who grew up in a City Hall Growing up in Benoni City Hall – the hometown of Charlize Theron and three members of the original Not The Midnight Mass A-capella group (Graham and Christine Weir and Jenny De Lenta) – various threatregroups became Daniel’s “family”. From a young age he appeared in several ventriloquist productions, co-directed, worked backstage, front-of-house, painted sets, and ushered thousands into the theatre. As a young theatre-animal in training he was moreover a dresser to many famous stars at the original Civic Theatre in Gauteng (including Ge Korsten and Lawrence Folley in The Great Waltz), surpassing leaving Benoni to follow a career in theatre. From passive voyeur to zippy interviewer When he is not a passive voyeur Daniel in the dark, watching films or experiencing live theatre, he is an zippy interviewer, sharing thoughts with producers, directors, actors, screenwriters and filmmakers. As a published movie journalist, with increasingly than 30 years experience, he wrote regular interviews and features for the Good Weekend Argus, the trade magazine Screen Africa, as well as the Sunday Tribune, The Sunday Independent, and other newspapers and magazines . First steps in the write direction Following a unenduring stint as entrant two-face at the University of Pretoria – under the watchful vision of Amanda Strydom and Brumilda van Rensburg in their final years (performing a rather exhausting interpretation of the master of Ceremonies ‘Wilkommen’ from Cabaret as part of the first year concert) – Daniel followed his instinct and knew that he did not vest ‘in front of the camera’ or on stage.Withoutcompleting his military service (two years filled with thousands of stories to tell), Daniel became urgently involved in freelance movie journalism, working as a publicist and in Marketing. His first step was studying Journalism at the Pretoria Technikon, where he viewed films with the South African Censorboard and wrote reports for the Pretoria News. He moreover met and interviewed several celebrities who shaped his career as writer and sharpened his interest in mucosa – Liza Minnelli, Michael Dudikoff (filming “Platoon Leader”, Eartha Kitt ,writer-director Alan Pakula (who visited South Africa on a promotional tour of “Sophie’s Choice”), and Pieter-Dirk Uys. He worked as a publicist for Ster-Kinekor’s head-office in Gauteng; and for the Arts Council’s in Durban (as publicist for the Natal Philharmonic Orchestra and Musical Theatre/ Opera Department) and Cape Town (Musical Theatre Department). His professional relationship with Pieter-Dirk Uys began during the mid eighties. This snowballed into his position as personal teammate to Pieter-Dirk Uys for twelve years, during which period he wrote, co-produced, directed and designed the workshop production of the play “Yes, Masseur”, and established and co-designed the supper-theatre “Evita se Perron” in Darling. He moreover designed the lighting for several of Mr. Uys productions during its tours locally and internationally. His 12-year professional relationship with Pieter-Dirk Uys (and mentorship) ended when Daniel left Darling for Cape Town to establish The Writing Studio and focus on his own career. He has travelled extensively to London, Brighton, Berlin, Hamburg, Brussels, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Paris, Rome, Florence, Amsterdam, and New York; studying various productions in opera, musicals and theatre. Daniel moreover worked as PA to the Executive Director of the Western Cape Chapter of the NTVA (National Television and Video Association of South Africa), and was the Administrator of the Western Cape Chapter for two years . He moreover compiled and presented his own program on Fine Music Radio, focusing on music from mucosa and theatre; was a full-length writer for the magazine “Women At Work”; and was the Chief Writer for the first series of the television game show “Love At First Sight”, which began on e-TV in January, 2000. Two Sox and JC When he is not teaching workshops or writing he spends most of his time in the dark, watching films on the big screen, or finding repletion from his minion feline companions Two-Sox and JC, with Little Tux, who joined the clan in December 2016. He settled in Prince Albert in The Karoo in May 2016, where he now works as Marketing Manager of The Showroom Theatre. His workshops for writers has been reduced to one yearly workshop at the Indie Karoo Festival in Prince Albert. All courses are now washed-up via correspondence.  Tux Copyright © 1998–2017  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Writing Studio/ Daniel Dercksen Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInGoogleRedditPinterest 2000 - 2018 © The Writing Studio & Daniel Dercksen. All rights reserved. Webmaster: Daniel Dercksen. Theme ripened by Bryn Hunter. Send to Email Address Your Name Your Email Address Cancel Post was not sent - trammels your email addresses! Email trammels failed, please try then Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.