Because I wasn't told that I was adopted until I was twenty, I lacked a vocabulary to describe who I am and where I come from, so performing and writ… - Phillippa Yaa de Villiers

About Phillippa Yaa de Villiers

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Phillippa Yaa de Villiers Phillippa Yaa de Villiers Born 17 February 1966 (age 59) Hillbrow, Johannesburg, South Africa Nationality South African Education Rhodes University; University of the Witwatersrand; Lecoq International School of Theatre; Lancaster University Occupation(s) Poet, performance artist Notable work The Everyday Wife (2010) Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (born 17 February 1966) is a South African writer and performance artist who performs her work nationally and internationally. She is noted for her poetry, which has been published in collections and in many magazines and anthologies, as well as for her autobiographical one-woman show, Original Skin, which centres on her confusion about her identity at a young age, as the biracial daughter of an Australian mother and a Ghanaian father who was adopted and raised by a white family in apartheid South Africa.