Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu – Director Mumbi Otu is a director, writer, theatre educator and actor. Directing credits include Toast (Mussorgsky Project, Obsidian Theatre), Keen (Summerworks), 27 Weeks (New Ideas, Alumnae Theatre), For Coloured Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf (Hart House Theatre). Assisting directing credits include, Turn of the Screw (DVxT Theatre), Rock n Roll and It s a Wonderful Life (Canadian Stage Company), Late and Black Medea (Obsidian Theatre), Stephen and Mr. Wilde (Hart House Theatre), Love s labour s Lost (York University.) Otu holds a Honours BA degree from York University in Theatre, as well as a BSc from the University of Toronto. Anansewa! Lucky Ejim (Ananse) graduated from the Toronto Film School where he majored in Directing for Film. Lucky is also a graduate of Theatre Arts from the University of Benin. He directed the feature film The Tenant (2006), which won the award for Best feature film at the Moving Image Film Festival and was nominated for best feature film at the Bite the Mango Film Festival. Lucky has over forty professional acting credits to his name, most of which showcase him as a lead in plays both in Nigeria and Canada. He has also acted severally in various films and television features in Canada, including the award winning feature film, A Winter’s Tale; the groundbreaking Canadian television crime series, The Border; and a two-part political television drama, The Summit. At the Toronto Film School, he produced and directed four short films, including Sounds of the Past (a film about the Rwanda genocide) which won the award for Best Screenplay at the Moon Rock film festival and Best Actor and Best sound at the Toronto Film School Film Festival. It was screened at Sithengi Film Festival in South Africa and the Zimbabwe Film Festival. A best actor nominee at the Toronto Film School Festival for Milton, Lucky is currently working as an actor on three plays: Shine your Eyes, The Lockdown and Anansewa! Also under development are two other feature films: Intersection and Alaba Market. Olunike Adeliyi (Anansewa) was born and raised in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. After graduating from high school she went to study at the Canadian Academy of Method Acting. She continued her studies at the Professional Actors Lab working with one of Canada s well known artistic directors, David Rotenburg. Olunike is a recent graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. She has performed in theatres throughout Canada and the U.S playing lead roles in Blue Window, A Midsummer Night s Dream, Children s Hour, Jitney, and Michael Cristofer s The Shadow Box. Olunike recently starred as Julia Augustine in Wedding Band, by award winning playwright Alice Childress and as Fatumata in How To Stay Sane in Paris written and directed by award winning director Omonike Akinyemi. Olunike recently performed in the musical Zinzi, written and directed by award winning playwright, Phyllis MacBryde. John Alexander Campbell (Storyteller; Musician) was Curtis in Dreamgirls productions in Winnipeg (MTC) and Hamilton (Theatre Aquarius) in 2008; and Josiah Henson in the Bicentenary to Commemorate the Abolition of Slavery in December 2007,a role he enjoyed playing for Dresden s Emancipation Day in 2008. John also appeared on the Treehouse Network television show 4Square, and an appearance on the sci-fi television show, Missing. John s stage credits also being a cast member of the Dora award winning 2002 & 2004 productions of The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God, and Orphesus Descending at the Royal Alexandra Theatre. An accomplished singer, pianist, and songwriter, John currently performs weekly at the acclaimed Rosewater Supper Club and Pantages Martini Lounge in Toronto. Music performances also include choir direction for Grammy winner, Speech, from Arrested Development, Harbourfront World Leaders festival tributes to legendary musicians Quincy Jones and Peter Gabriel, and the "Canada Loves New York" commercial campaigns. Bayo Akinfemi (Director) has worked as an actor and a director for almost two decades. He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Performing Arts from University of Ilorin, Nigeria and worked for a few years in the entertainment industry, acquiring several screen credits including, Bitter Encounter, Sango and Days of Vulture. In 1998, Bayo moved to Canada and quickly established himself as a fine actor, acquiring credits on blockbusters such as The Tuxedo (Jackie Chan), Bulletproof Monk (Chow Yun Fat), Soul Food, Eleventh Hour, Mayday and Blue Murder. He was nominated for the GEMINI and the ACTRA Best Actor Awards in 2004 for the lead role in the CBC’s miniseries, Human Cargo and for the GEMINI in 2008 for his portrayal of a Sudanese warlord in CBC’s high octane series, The Border. Bayo’s directing credits include The Gods Are Not To Blame, Wedlock of The Gods, A Christmas Carol, Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again, The Trials Of Brother Jero, Peppersoup and Soulmate. He studied Films and Television Production at the Toronto Film School, after which he acquired several years of practical experience as an Assistant Director on numerous Hollywood feature films, T.V programs and commercials before he started making films. His short films directing credits include A Novel Ending, Behind Closed Doors, My Little Package and Days Away. His first feature length movie is Scoundrels of Faith. Bayo’s Toronto based company, Greenland Entertainment, has numerous feature length and documentary film projects in various stages of development. Have You Seen Zandile? Joke Silva (Gogo/Grandmother; Lulama; Old Woman) Joke is a household name in the world of Nigerian cinema. Since the early eighties, she has carved out a successful career as an actress on stage, film, television and radio primarily in Nigeria and England (BBC, British Film Institute, Royal Court Theatre Sloan Sq) and the South of France. Her acting credits include The Secret Laughter of Women with Nia Long and Colin Firth (’97 Film), Mirror in the Sun (’84 TV), Second Chance (’84 TV), Jero’s Metamorphosis (’81 Stage), Owuro Lojo (’93 Video), Mind Bending (’92 TV), Sisters (2002 Stage), The King Must Dance Naked (’93 Stage), Tight Rope (2000 – 2002 TV), Twins of the Rainforest (’98 Film), The Kingmaker (2002 Video), A Husband’s Wife (2003 Stage), Brave Heart (2003 Film), Shylock (2004 Stage) and A Past Came Calling (2004 Stage), Digging for Gold (2005 Stage), The Sisters (2007 Stage- London), to mention a few. Joke has also directed to critical acclaim: Digging for Gold, Jonah, The Drummer Boy, Footprints and The Vagina Monologues. She is an alumnus of Holy Child College, Obalende, Weber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts, London, University of Lagos Akoka and Fate Foundation, Ijora. Silva is a recipient of several awards, including the AFRICAN MOVIE ACADEMY Best Actress Award 2006, EMOTAN Award by African Independent Television and the SOLIDRA Award. She is also a Member of the think tank for the Blair Commission for Africa, a trustee of Advocacy for Women and Children, a board member and a grief counselor for AART of Life Foundation. African Theatre Ensemble is honoured to bring Joke Silva to the Canadian stage for the first time with Who Has Seen Zandile? d’bi young anitafrika (Zandile) Hailing from the trenches of Maxfield Avenue kingston 13 jamaica and the concrete jungles of toronto city canada
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