Amaka Umeh is an award-winning English theatre performing artist of Nigerian descent who enjoys puns, sweets, and adventures. They are overjoyed to debut in a directorial-choreographic capacity with this brilliant team. Recent credits: Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, Death and the King's Horseman, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Stratford Festival); Sizwe Banzi is Dead, 1851: Spirit & Voice (Soulpepper); Fall On Your Knees (Canadian premiere tour). Film: The Strangers' Case (CBC Gem). Audiobook: Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi (ECW Press). Training: Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre; Factory Theatre Mechanicals; Randolph College.

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