Sylvaine Strike

Sylvaine Strike is a South African actress, writer and theatre director based in Cape Town, South Africa. Early life Strike was born in Pretoria. She studied at the University of Cape Town and graduated with a degree in drama in 1993. Strike studied further from 1998 to 2000 in Paris at Jacques LeCoq School where completed a two year diploma with a focus in mime and clown. Career Theatre Strike is the current artistic director of Fortune Cookie Theatre, which she co-founded in 2000. With Fortune Cookie Theatre, Strike has directed such shows as Molière's The Miser (2012) and Tartuffe (2017) and the Chekhov-adaptation, Tobacco and the Harmful Effects Thereof (2016). In 2004, Strike co-created the show Black and Blue with other members of Fortune Cookie, which she also starred in. In 2015, Fortune cookie remounted the production.