Antu Yacob is an Oromo, Ethiopian born, Bay Area and Minnesota raised actor, filmmaker, playwright, and producer. Her film Love in Submission was part of the Full Spectrum Features’ collection: Our Right to Gaze: Black Film Identities. It screened in various festivals including New York African Film Festival, Women of the Lens (UK) and Black Muslim Girl Fly Festival (Honorable Mention). She recently completed Cycle 4 of the Obie award-winning The Fire This Time Festival’s New Works Lab where she continued development on her original tv series. Her onscreen credits include Inventing Anna, The Other Two, Night Comes On, Daredevil, Gypsy, Law & Order: SVU, Adieu Lacan, Brooklyn Park, Signs of Aging and Love in Submission. 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, Mile Square Theatre, and Tiny Barn Festival. Her stage credits include work with The Fire This Time Festival, American Slavery Project, Primary Stages, Project Y Theatre, Crossroads Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Luna Stage, 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 an Associate Producer with Project Y Theatre, she conceived and curates All Hands on Deck, a reading series that shares new works by female playwrights of the African Diaspora, exploring select themes that expand on the multidimensionality of Black life in the U.S. She also served as a producer for Adrian Luke Sinclair’s Conjure, the winner of the 2017 Hip Hop Film Festival Vanguard award. She teaches at Baruch College and Rutgers University. She received her MFA in Acting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. www.antuyacob.com

Antu Yacob

Antu Yacob is an Oromo, Ethiopian born, Bay Area and Minnesota raised actor, filmmaker, playwright, and producer. Her film Love in Submission was part of the Full Spectrum Features’ collection: Our Right to Gaze: Black Film Identities. It screened in various festivals including New York African Film Festival, Women of the Lens (UK) and Black Muslim Girl Fly Festival (Honorable Mention). She recently completed Cycle 4 of the Obie award-winning The Fire This Time Festival’s New Works Lab where she continued development on her original tv series. Her onscreen credits include Inventing Anna, The Other Two, Night Comes On, Daredevil, Gypsy, Law & Order: SVU, Adieu Lacan, Brooklyn Park, Signs of Aging and Love in Submission. 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, Mile Square Theatre, and Tiny Barn Festival. Her stage credits include work with The Fire This Time Festival, American Slavery Project, Primary Stages, Project Y Theatre, Crossroads Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Luna Stage, 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 an Associate Producer with Project Y Theatre, she conceived and curates All Hands on Deck, a reading series that shares new works by female playwrights of the African Diaspora, exploring select themes that expand on the multidimensionality of Black life in the U.S. She also served as a producer for Adrian Luke Sinclair’s Conjure, the winner of the 2017 Hip Hop Film Festival Vanguard award. She teaches at Baruch College and Rutgers University. She received her MFA in Acting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. www.antuyacob.com