Femi Euba
Louise & Kenneth Kinney Professor (Black Drama and Play Writing)
Euba eceived the M.A. degree in Afro-American Studies and the MFA degree in Playwriting and Dramatic Literature from Yale University. He earned the Ph.D. degree in Literature at the University of Ife, Nigeria. He has acted and directed professionally in Nigeria, London, and the United States. Professor Euba holds a joint appointment in the departments of Theatre and English. He has written numerous plays for BBC Radio. His book, Archetypes, Imprecators, and Victims of Fate, was published by Greenwood Press in 1989 and his award winning full-length play The Gulf, was published by Longman (Nigeria) Ltd. His playwriting text, Poetics of the Creative Process: Organic Practicum to Playwriting was published in 2005 by University Press of America. A selection of his plays is published in a database collection, BLACK DRAMA, by Alexander Street Press. A consultant in African drama and theatre, he has had numerous workshops and lectures on the subject. His directing credits include KC/ACTF award-winning Sizwe Bansi is Dead, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Rivals, The African Company Presents Richard III, Hedda Gabler, Alcestis, Maryse Conde's Tropical Breeze Hotel and Shakespeare’s The Tempest. A recipient of the LSU Alumni Association Faculty Excellence Award and the LSU Distinguished Faculty Award, he has worked variously with the 1986 Nobel Laureate for Literature, Wole Soyinka, including Soyinka’s presentation of his long poem, Samarkand, in 2005 at the Shaw Centre in Baton Rouge.
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Email: theuba@lsu.edu
