Antu Yacob is an Oromo, Ethiopian born, U.S. raised artist. She is an actor, filmmaker, playwright and producer. As an Associate Producer with Project Y Theatre, she curates All Hands on Deck, a commission series of new plays by female writers of the African diaspora.
Her film Love in Submission was part of the Full Spectrum Features’ collection: Our Right to Gaze: Black Film Identities. The collection served as a case study in the diversity in Hollywood forum at Sundance 2021. The film screened in various festivals including New York African Film Festival, Women of the Lens (UK) and received an Honorable Mention in the Black Muslim Girl Fly Festival. Antu served as a producer for Adrian Luke Sinclair’s film Conjure, which won the Vanguard Award in the 2017 Hip Hop Film Festival.
As an actor, her on screen credits include Rob Peace (written/directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor), Jelly (2023 ABFF/HBO Short Film Award winner), Night Comes On, “Inventing Anna”, “The Other Two”, “Daredevil”, “Gypsy”, “Law & Order: SVU”, Adieu Lacan, Signs of Aging, Brooklyn Park, Conjure. Her stage credits include work with The Fire This Time Festival, American Slavery Project, Primary Stages, Sheen Center, Crossroads Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Luna Stage, Peterborough Players, Cincinnati Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Co, Mixed Blood Theatre, Pangea World Theatre and Pillsbury House Theatre. Her voice can be heard on the Druid Hills episode of Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History and the audiobook Addis Ababa Noir by Maaza Mengiste.
As a playwright, Antu is under commission through InterAct Theatre’s The Philly Cycle, with a world premiere production slated for Spring 2025. She is part of The Fire This Time Festival’s New Works Lab Cycle 4 cohort. Her solo show In The Gray was featured in United Solo Theatre Festival and the Symposium on African Global Migration. Her plays have premiered at Kampala International Theatre Festival (Uganda), Project Y Theatre, Theatre167 and Mile Square Theatre.
She earned an MFA in Acting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
Antu Yacob
Antu Yacob is an Oromo, Ethiopian born, U.S. raised artist. She is an actor, filmmaker, playwright and producer. As an Associate Producer with Project Y Theatre, she curates All Hands on Deck, a commission series of new plays by female writers of the African diaspora.
Her film Love in Submission was part of the Full Spectrum Features’ collection: Our Right to Gaze: Black Film Identities. The collection served as a case study in the diversity in Hollywood forum at Sundance 2021. The film screened in various festivals including New York African Film Festival, Women of the Lens (UK) and received an Honorable Mention in the Black Muslim Girl Fly Festival. Antu served as a producer for Adrian Luke Sinclair’s film Conjure, which won the Vanguard Award in the 2017 Hip Hop Film Festival.
As an actor, her on screen credits include Rob Peace (written/directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor), Jelly (2023 ABFF/HBO Short Film Award winner), Night Comes On, “Inventing Anna”, “The Other Two”, “Daredevil”, “Gypsy”, “Law & Order: SVU”, Adieu Lacan, Signs of Aging, Brooklyn Park, Conjure. Her stage credits include work with The Fire This Time Festival, American Slavery Project, Primary Stages, Sheen Center, Crossroads Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Luna Stage, Peterborough Players, Cincinnati Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Co, Mixed Blood Theatre, Pangea World Theatre and Pillsbury House Theatre. Her voice can be heard on the Druid Hills episode of Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History and the audiobook Addis Ababa Noir by Maaza Mengiste.
As a playwright, Antu is under commission through InterAct Theatre’s The Philly Cycle, with a world premiere production slated for Spring 2025. She is part of The Fire This Time Festival’s New Works Lab Cycle 4 cohort. Her solo show In The Gray was featured in United Solo Theatre Festival and the Symposium on African Global Migration. Her plays have premiered at Kampala International Theatre Festival (Uganda), Project Y Theatre, Theatre167 and Mile Square Theatre.
She earned an MFA in Acting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
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