• Claudette Wagner
• 031 260 3133 or 031 260 2377
• 031 260 1410
• wagnerc1@ukzn.ac.za

Claudette joined the staff of the then University of Natal in 1995, working first as a part-time administrator and then assuming full-time duties. Claudette is responsible for all teaching and other administration matters in the Drama and Performance Studies department. She engages with students on a daily basis, fielding their demands and assisting wherever possible – whether it is in relation to questions around timetabling, to dealing with marks, to generating course manuals and even helping with individual student concerns and problems. Claudette is also the administrator for all creative projects in the department, assisting staff and students to run projects, sourcing props, equipment and costumes, and managing publicity for productions.

• Rogers Ganesan
• 031 260 1138
• 031 260 1410
• ganesanr1@ukzn.ac.za

Rogers joined the staff of the then University of Natal in 1981, and is responsible for all technical and equipment matters in the department. Rogers’ responsibilities range from designing and constructing stage sets, to sourcing and creating properties for productions, to technical set ups for lectures and seminars, to supervision of the technical aspects of Honours productions. Rogers notes that every production in the department over the years has brought its own specific challenges, but also that those challenges have excited the students involved and given them opportunities to perform and to participate, which have proved invaluable.

• Bemil Fynn
• 031 260 3134
• 031 260 1410
• fynnb@ukzn.ac.za

Bemil joined UKZN in 2009 and works in two areas in the Drama and Performance Studies department: as the Departmental Librarian and Wardrobe Mistress. Bemil manages the department’s Florence Powell Collection, our research library, where she is responsible for cataloguing of new acquisitions, liaising with postgraduate students around loans of books, managing the reserve materials for departmental courses, and co-ordinating with the main University Library. In the Wardrobe, she assists with costumes for productions and creative projects in the department, as well as managing the day to day running of the wardrobe and the hiring out of costumes. Bemil is often the most well-known face in the department because of her constant interactions with the students, and her kindness and generosity in dealing with them as an integral part of the Drama and Performance Studies department.