Thandi Brewer (died 12 June 2019), was a South African showrunner, screenwriter, film producer, director, and script editor.
Brewer was born in South Africa and lived in Lower Houghton (Hillbrow) before moving to the rural Hennops River region.
Her stage work as a writer and director included My Mother, Myself, Two Singers - Khuluma, The History of Sex, Letters of Love, Lust and Living, Alice in Africa, Azanyan Fairytales, The Will to Die, and Alternatives Anonymous.
Together they produced Rockatutu for the South African Ballet Theatre in 2004, which segued into Music and Mayhem in 2005, Jump 4 Joy in 2006, The Heart is Round in 2007 and Gunslingers.
[10] It was a regional semi-finalist for best drama series for the International Emmys in 2008, won 4 SAFTAs, and played to 4.3 million viewers a night on SABC 1.
[12][13] She had also just completed her directorial debut with her script “The Chemo Club” which was nominated in the 2015 WGSA Muse Awards Feature film category.
[16] Brewer's cancer battle and double mastectomy only made her more determined to write, produce and direct more South African content.
She script doctored four international features, including a film by Luc Jacquet, Oscar-winning director of March of the Penguins, and Cheap Lives by Antony Sher.
Her feature film screenplays included Story of an African Farm, starring Richard E. Grant, De Gerrie for Hugh Masekela and the NFVF, and The Chemo Club, which was her directorial debut.