Biography
Phillippa Yaa de Villiers was born in South Africa in 1966. She is the author of two poetry collections: Taller than Buildings and The Everyday Wife. She is also a playwright and performer known for her autobiographical one-woman show, Original Skin, which centres on her confusion about her identity at a young age, as the bi-racial daughter of an Australian mother and a Ghanaian father who was adopted and raised by a white family in apartheid South Africa. She has a journalism degree from Rhodes University, Grahamstown, as well as an honours degree in dramatic art and scriptwriting from the University of the Witwatersrand. She is also a graduate of the Lecoq International School of Theatre in Paris, France, where she studied mime and theatre. She currently lives and works in South Africa.
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"Phillippa Yaa de Villiers." African Studies Centre Leiden. Accessed 14 July 2022. <https://www.ascleiden.nl/content/ASC-community/members/phillippa-yaa-de-villiers>.
"Phillippa Yaa de Villiers." Poetry Archive. Accessed 14 July 2022. <https://poetryarchive.org/poet/phillippa-yaa-de-villiers/>.
