Catherine Ugwu

[16] It received an Honourable Mention from the Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award Committee of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) in 1998.

[17] As a writer, Ugwu also contributed to the Iniva/ICA exhibition catalogue Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference and Desire on the work of Frantz Fanon,[18][19] and the Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture.

[20] In 1997, Ugwu and Keidan left the ICA to form Keidan/Ugwu, "a company dedicated to locating time-based performance within a critical framework, but outside the institutional context".

[45][46] The Olympic Opening Ceremony was widely praised by the media:[47] The Times described it as "a masterpiece",[48] while The Daily Telegraph called it "brilliant, breathtaking, bonkers and utterly British".

[50][51] Frank Cottrell-Boyce, the writer of the Opening Ceremony, revealed that the London 2012 cauldron designed by Thomas Heatherwick was codenamed "Betty" after Ugwu's dog, in order to maintain secrecy.

[54][55] Ugwu executive produced the Save the Children "IF" Campaign in 2013, with the involvement of Danny Boyle, Bill Gates, Tamsin Greig, and Myleene Klass,[56] and a live film event for Goldfrapp in 2014 – a 30-minute anthology film inspired by their album Tales of Us, and live performance at Air Studios in London, both transmitted into cinemas across the UK, Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand.

[42] In 2019, Ugwu was both Artistic Director and Executive Producer of the Official 48th UAE National Day Celebration in Abu Dhabi, a large-scale show held at the Zayed Sports City Stadium.