Actor, playwright, director of stage plays, films and curator of visual arts, Awam Amkpa is a Nigerian-American.
in Dramatic Arts from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria where he studied under the tutelage of Wole Soyinka, his M.A.
[2] He is a theatre scholar and practitioner-director, playwright and actor, film maker and curator of visual and performing arts.
“Awam Amkpa: What’s Missing Will be Found," Guernica Magazine, October 2024[3] 'Africa: Significaciones' at Centro Provincial de artes Plasticas y Diseño, Havana, Cuba.
2015 'Africa: See You, See Me' in Beijing and Macau China; Rome and Florence, Italy, Dakar, Senegal and Lagos, Nigeria.