Amaka Umeh

Class of 2014

Credits: BLOOD + SOIL (Theatre ARTaud); Bobbi in Hilda's Yard (Foster Festival), Ensemble in Towards Youth - a play on Radical Hope (Project: Humanity/Crow's Theatre); 00 in The Wolves (Howland Company/Crow's); Abigail in A Christmas Carol, Christa in Beethoven Lives Upstairs (Grand Theatre); Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Sampson in Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare in High Park); Spiker in James and the Giant Peach (Young People's Theatre); Ariel in The Tempest (Hart House Theatre); Pets (Shadowland Theatre); Twelfth Night (Classical Theatre Project); Munsch Mash (Solar Stage); Hasana in All Our Yesterdays (Chloe Hung, Toronto Fringe). Upcoming: Hamlet in Hamlet (Stratford Festival), Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall (Stratford Festival)

Awards and Honors: Three Dora Award nominations, one My Entertainment World MyTheatreAward nomination, a Toronto Fringe Patron's Pick Award and an Honourable Mention in Best of Fringe. Currently a member of the Stratford Festival's Birmingham Conservatory, Amaka also completed the Factory Theatre Mechanicals and Toronto Fringe Theatre Entrepreneurs' Network and Training (T.E.N.T.) Programs.

Headlines: Toronto Star - A Black woman as Hamlet makes history at Stratford (Oct. 17, 2019)