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John Adekoje
John ADEkoje
Theatre Faculty

John Oluwole ADEkoje is a graduate of Humboldt State University with a MFA in dramatic writing and an MA in film production. He is national award winner of the Kennedy Center: ACTF-Lorraine Hansberry playwriting award for the play Streethawker as well as the 2006 Roxbury Film Festival’s Award for Emerging local Filmmaker for the documentary Street Soldiers, which shown at Le Festival du Film Panafricain (Cannes) and Festival des Films du Monde (Montréal).

He is currently the playwright-in-residence at Company One and an Affiliate Artist at the Providence Black Repertory Theatre. He is ecstatic to be teaching at BAA.