Adedapo Abayomi Adelugba (1939 - 2014) was a Nigerian academic, theatre critic and playwright who spent a considerable part of his academic career at University of Ibadan where he was a director of the university's theatre troupe.
Adelugba was also the director of Nigeria's drama entry to the Second World Festival of Arts and Culture.
[1] As a theatre arts scholar and critic, he worked with noted dramatists and writers such as Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, John Pepper Clark and Abiola Irele, he later edited celebratory books about Wole Soyinka titled Before our very eyes : tribute to Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and another for Wale Ogunyemi titled Chief Wale Ogunyemi at fifty : essays in honour of a Nigerian actor-dramatist.
While in America, he worked as an assistant at Lake Erie College and was an actor at Karamu House,[2] Adelugba also studied at the Pasadena Playhouse.
[1] As a theatre critic and academic, he initiated a literary journal called Literature, the Arts, Culture and Education (LACE occasional publications), which chronicles personalities and events within the industry.