How Now Brown Cow is a Theatre Producing Company, based in South Africa, committed to presenting a range of world-class productions which particularly aims to commission, enable and empower South African Theatre Practitioners.

Dear Evan Hansen

February | March | April 2025

My Name Is Lucy Barton

by Elizabeth Strout
adapted by Rona Munro

Expelled

Rosalind Butler

A Marry
Little Christmas

Greg Homann

The Beauty Queen
Of Leenane

Martin Mcdonagh

Where it started

Est 2020

How Now Brown Cow is founded by Julie-Anne McDowell Hegarty during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020.

Daniel Galloway, former MD of The Fugard Theatre, acts as General Manager & Producer alongside Julie-Anne.

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Edward Albee was a wise man! When writing characters for performance, playwrights need to answer these questions - What role do the characters play in the play? What is their purpose? Playwrighting is an artform! #thewriterscollective #writers #s
Stage Manager: Tabs Open...GO! Watching the curtain rise on our stages may feel like a distant memory. It is with the knowledge that theatre is essential to the health and wellness of our society that we wait patiently in the wings for the curtain t
The Writers' Collective is about storytelling 📖 As we speak, our 4 writers of the How Now Brown Cow Writers' Collective are busy writing stories for the theatre. Theatre is about telling stories - yours, ours, and those of our imaginations. We are
From the mouth of our feature writer - Buhle Ngaba 🖊 In 2018, Buhle played Bianca in an all-women cast of The Taming of the Shrew for the annual  Maynardville Theatre (SA) offering, solidifying the experience she had gained at the RS