Name Awam Amkpa | Role Playwright | |
Books Theatre and postcolonial desires Education | ||
Office Hours: Bill T. Jones, Janet Wong, Awam Amkpa
Awam Amkpa is a Nigerian actor, playwright, and professor of dramatic arts.
Contents
- Office Hours Bill T Jones Janet Wong Awam Amkpa
- Background
- Career
- Books
- Filmography
- Curatorial Practices
- References
Background
Currently a professor of Drama and Cultural Theory at the departments of Drama, Tisch School of the Arts and Social and Cultural Analysis, Faculty of Arts and Sciences at New York University. He received his B.A. in Dramatic Arts from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria where he studied under the tutelage of Wole Soyinka, his M.A. in Drama from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, and his Ph.D. from University of Bristol, Bristol, England.
Career
Dr. Amkpa is currently a professor of Drama at New York University and in Social and Cultural Analysis/Africana studies at New York University. [1]. He has also taught at Mount Holyoke College [2]. He is a theatre scholar and practitioner-director, playwright and actor, film maker and curator of visual and performing arts.
Books
ReSignifications: European Blackamoors, Africana Readings. Edited catalogue published by Postcart, Rome, Italy. 2016 Africa: See You, See Me. Edited catalogue, Africa.Cont, Lisboa. 2013
Filmography
Director/Editor, ‘Accra: A Pan-African Rupture’ 75 mins
Director/Editor, ‘A Very Very Short Story of Nollywood’ 15 mins Produced by Manthia Diawara. 2008
Director, ‘Women of Agbogloshi’ 12 mins- short documentary on Muslim women in Accra. 2007
Director, ‘Voices Against Aids’ 5 mins ‘Hip-Life’ music video shot and broadcast in Ghana for the West African Aids Federation. 2007
Assistant Director, Conakry Kas, directed by Manthia Diawara2006
Assistant Director, Bamako Sigi-Kan, directed by Manthia Diawara. 2005
Director, Editor, Wazobia! Feature film written and produced by Tess Onwueme. 2005
Curatorial Practices
'Africa: Significaciones' at Centro Provincial de artes Plasticas y Diseño, Havana, Cuba. 2017 'ReSignifications: European Blackamoors, Africana Readings.' at Museo Bardini, Villa La Pietra and Galleria Biagiotti, Florence, Italy. 2015 'Africa: See You, See Me' in Beijing and Macau China; Rome and Florence, Italy, Dakar, Senegal and Lagos, Nigeria. 2011-2013 Annual Highlife Music Festival, Accra, Ghana. 2006-2009 Kofi Ghanaba Audi-Visual Archives, Medie-Accra, Ghana 2007-2010