Wolé Oguntokun
Stratford: Dramaturge, cultural consultant and dialect coach for Death and the King’s Horseman. Radio/Recordings: Dramaturge and Elesin Oba in Stratford/Soulpepper Theatre’s radio/online production of Death and the King’s Horseman (June 2021). Elsewhere: Global Fellow of the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA) in 2015, 2016, 2018. He has written and directed plays for the Cross Currents Festival (Washington, DC); Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Scotland; Shakespeare Olympiad (The Globe, London); Ubumuntu Arts Festival, Rwanda; Lagos Black Heritage Festival. Moderator at the awarding of the Europe Theatre Special Prize to Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, in Rome. Artistic consultant to the Directors’ Projects at the Shaw Festival (2018), assistant director to Wole Soyinka in the production of Beatification of Area Boy, resident International Guest Artiste at the Svalegangen Theatre, Arhus, Denmark. He was consultant to the National Theatre, England, in its production of Death and the King’s Horseman.
