Obsidian Theatre - Big Change At The Top
Phil says goodbye and Mumbi says hello The Obsidian Theatre, the country's leading culturally diverse theatre company is now going through a major change. After twenty years, the theatre’s founder and CEO has retired. He has been replaced by a young African Canadian director who will take over the running of the company in August. Philip Akin has been acting and directing for over 40 years. In 2000, he was a founding member of Obsidian Theatre, Canada’s leading black theatre company, and has served as its Artistic Director since 2006. Earlier this week Obsidian announced that Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu is the new Artistic Director of the Obsidian Theatre. In a press release issued by Obsidian Ms. Otu “was raised in Kenya and Victoria, BC. She is a critically acclaimed Toronto-based stage director with over a decade of professional experience and is the Founder/Artistic Director of the Dora Nominated experimental theatre company IFT (It’s A Freedom Thi