Emelia Pinamang Asiedu
Actor and Teacher in New York
Emelia Pinamang Asiedu is an actress and co-director of Accra Theatre Workshop in Accra, Ghana where she was born and raised.
She has special interests in physical theatre, artistic collaborations across music and dance, and performance work derived from Ghanaian culture, traditions and history.
Past credits include: By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Vera Stark), Welcome to Thebes (Euridyce), Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike(Cassandra), Lady from the Sea (Ellida), and Cholera Diaries, a devised one-woman show woven around real life accounts of people affected by a Cholera epidemic in Ghana in 2014.
Emelia holds a BA in Theatre from Pomona College (Claremont, CA) and an MFA in Acting from the University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA).