Awam Amkpa

Awam Amkpa is an accomplished and world-renowned theater scholar and practitioner-director, playwright and actor, filmmaker and curator of visual and performing arts. He is 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 He is the author of Theatre and Postcolonial Desires, London: Routledge, 2003, and Archetypes, Stereotypes and Polytypes: Theatres of the Black Atlantic. Additionally, he was the director of film documentaries including Winds Against Our Souls, It’s All About Downtown, National Images and Transnational Desires, and feature film Wazobia!, as well as the author of art catalogs, several articles in books and journals on modernisms in theater, postcolonial theater, Black Atlantic studies, and film studies.As an interdisciplinary artist and scholar, Amkpa continues to exhibit globally and present his multifaceted scholarship in venues across the world.Amkpa has BA in Dramatic Arts from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. He received an MA in Drama from Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria. Amkpa completed his Ph.D. in Drama at the University of Bristol in the UK.
Address: New York