Chuck Mike (Director) is an internationally acclaimed theatre director, playmaker, educator and social activist. His main-stage productions have appeared on the stages of The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., The Royal Court Theatre in London, The Edinburgh Festival and the National Theatres of Nigeria and Ghana. Highlights include: Fences, Raisin in the Sun, Macbutu (after Macbeth), Sense of Belonging and Zhe: (Noun) Undefined (both authored by him), Things Fall Apart (World Tour), Yerma, Women of Owu (after Trojan Woman), Tegonni (after Antigone), Standing Together 6ft. Apart (Company Created), and Fairview. He enjoys devising original work and has initiated performances for social change in rural and urban communities across Africa, Europe, and North America. As artist-in-residence/workshop leader and educator, some spaces of work have been the Universities of Leeds, Oxford, Toronto, Ife (Nigeria), NYU, The 5 Colleges (Boston), London’s Royal National Theatre Studio and the Windybrow Theatre of Johannesburg. Founding Artistic Director for Collective Artistes (Nigeria and UK) and The Performance Studio Workshop of Nigeria, Chuck Mike has been the recipient of grants from International Telephone and Telegraph/Fulbright, MacArthur, Ford and Camargo Foundations and the American Cultural Specialist program. He is the co-curator, with Carlyle Brown, for the Cultural Diaspora program, a residency for playwrights of African descent in Cassis, France.