Omar Sangare

Omar Sangare (born 14 November 1970, Stalowa Wola) is a Polish American actor, academic, poet, and theatre director.

He graduated from The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw, where he studied with the Oscar-winning director Andrzej Wajda.

In 1994 he was awarded a scholarship to The British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England, where he worked with, among others, Michael Kahn, Jeremy Irons, Sir Derek Jacobi, and the now-deceased Alan Rickman.

Accompanied by great American writers such as Robert Pinsky and Susan Sontag he promoted Polish literature in the United States.

[6] Omar Sangare was selected by the U.S. Department of State for a video project that appeared as part of President Barack Obama's trip to Poland in May 2011, as among the "prominent Polish Americans who are proud of their heritage while having an impact on America’s social and cultural fabric.