Season 1, Episode 7: Chuk Obasi

Get to know Thumbprint Studios’ very own Chuk Obasi!

Chuk Obasi is an actor, writer, director and choreographer. He is currently the Co-Director at TÉA Creative, a Company Member with The Private Theatre, and a Company Member with the People’s Theatre Project. He is also an educator, having served as a Movement Project Director at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, a Musical Theatre Adjunct Professor at Drew University, and a frequent guest teacher for LAByrinth Theatre among other engagements. He has recently worked with Intersections International (Artist in Residence), the National Dance Institute (Teaching Artist), and STAR Theatre at the Director’s Company (Choreographer). Chuk has performed, written, or directed across disciplines, including theatre, film, television, dance, and live poetry performance. Obasi is also a social justice activist and has taught workshops on using art for social justice at colleges, high schools, museums, and other institutions - most recently including Emerson College, University of Montana, The Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, Fordham University, Drew University, Fieldston Ethical Culture, and Girl Be Heard. A New York native, born in Queens and raised in the Bronx, Obasi currently resides in Manhattan with his family.
Chuk recommends Cast: The Origin of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson