Ibi Owolabi
ibiowolabi@gmail.com
DIRECTING
Poof!
May 2024
Keen Company
Furlough's Paradise (Reading)
March 2024
Manhattan Theatre Club
Poof! (Reading)
January 2024
Manhattan Theatre Club
The Light
March 2023
University of South Carolina
Good Bad People
January 2023
Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre
Intimate Apparel
March 2022
Actor’s Express
These Shining Lives
January 2022
University of South Carolina
The Bluest Eye
October 2021
Synchronicity Theatre
You On the Moors Now
March 2021
University of South Carolina
FAITH: Zoom Reading
September 2020
Working Title Playwrights
The Nether
November 2019
Theatre Emory
Here Comes the Sun
June 2019
Galo Entertainment
Angry Fags
March 2018
7Stages Theatre
WE the Village (Staged Reading)
October 2018
Working Title Playwrights
Lysistrata
October 2018
Impulse Repertory
The Electric Baby
September 2018
Weird Sisters Theatre Project
The Vagina Monologues
February 2018
Independent Artist’s Playhouse
Brita Warrior Princess
October 2017
Weird Sisters Theatre Project
PRODUCING
Producer, Weird Sister’s Theatre
December 2019-Present
Here Comes the Sun
Washington DC- May 2019
DC Black Theatre Festival
Here Comes the Sun- Texas Tour
February 2020
GALO Entertainment
I Remember Kyle (co direct. Justin Kalin)
June 2017
Actor’s Express Theatre
Dutchman
April 2015
Georgia Southern Theatre and Performance
ASSISTANT DIRECTING
BROADWAY
Cost Of Living (Dir. Jo Bonney)
October 2022
Manhattan Theatre Club
Jaja's African Hair Braiding
October 2023
Manhattan Theatre Club
OFF BROADWAY
The Cotillion (Dir. Colette Robert)
April 2023
New Georges Theatre and The Movement Theatre
Approval Junkie (Dir. Amanda Watkins)
November 2021
Minetta Lane Theatre
REGIONAL
53% Of (Dir. Candis C. Jones)
February 2020
Alliance Theatre
Paradise Blue (Dir. Jamil Jude)
September 2019
Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre
Sheltered (Dir. Kimberly Senior)
February 2018
Alliance Theatre
Hand to God (Dir. Marc Masterson)
October 2017
Alliance Theatre
Little Shop Of Horrors (Dir. Rick Lombardo)
August 2017
Actor’s Express Theatre
Father Comes Home from the Wars Part 1, 2, and 3 (Dir. Martin D. Wilkins)
May 2017
Actor’s Express Theatre
Appropriate (Dir. Freddie Ashley)
October 2016
Actor’s Express Theatre
EDUCATION
Georgia Southern University — BA in Theatre
August 2011 - December 2015
Actor’s Express Internship— Directing Intern
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
Dialect- Nigerian/West African
Dialect- West Indian/Caribbean
AWARDS
2022-2024 Drama League Stage Directing Fellow
2014 KCACTF SDC Fellow
KCACTF Playwright’s Workshop Intensive
2017 Alliance Theatre Kenny Leon Fellow
2019-2020 Reiser Lab New Works Fellow
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