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

Coming 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