• Aku Kadogo

Aku Kadogo is Chair of the Department of Theatre and Performance at Spelman
College after serving as Distinguished Visiting Professor in 2014. Prior to that she
was on the Music Theatre faculty of Yongin University in South Korea and
previously the Director of the Black Theater Program at Wayne State University. She
has had an extensive career as an international theatre director, educator,
choreographer and performer creating works in Australia, Korea, Europe and the
United States.
As a performer Kadogo has worked in film television and stage making her career
debut in the original Broadway production of for colored girls who considered
suicide/when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange. She has been an Associate
Choreographer on RENT touring Australia, China and the United States.