Adedapo Abayomi Adelugba
- Died
- 2014-11-23
- Birthplace
- Ondo, Ondo State
- Occupation
- Academic, Theatre Critic, Playwright, Director, Editor, Actor
- Active
- 2014 - 2014
- Alma Mater
- Government College, Ibadan, University College, Ibadan, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Pasadena Playhouse
- AKA
- Dapo Adelugba
Biography
EARLY LIFE
Adedapo Abayomi Adelugba was born in Ondo, a town in Ondo State. His father, Benjamin Adelugba, was a native of Esa-Oke, and his mother, Beatrice Adelugba, was from Ibadan. He attended Government College, Ibadan, where he obtained a West African School Certificate and a Higher School Certificate in 1958. He completed his collegiate studies at University College, Ibadan, with a degree in English. He later earned a master's degree in theatre arts from UCLA and also studied at the Pasadena Playhouse. While in America, he worked as an assistant at Lake Erie College and was an actor at Karamu House.
CAREER
Upon his return to Nigeria, Dapo Adelugba briefly taught at Ibadan Grammar School before joining the academic staff of the University of Ibadan. During the Nigerian Civil War, when Wole Soyinka, the university's theatre troupe director, was detained, Adelugba took responsibility for directing Orisun Theatre, the school's drama group. As a theatre arts scholar and critic, he worked with noted dramatists and writers such as Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, John Pepper Clark, and Abiola Irele. He also edited celebratory books, including 'Before our very eyes: tribute to Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature' and 'Chief Wale Ogunyemi at fifty: essays in honour of a Nigerian actor-dramatist.' In 1977, he directed Wale Ogunyemi's 'Langbodo' as Nigeria's drama entry to the Second World Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC 77). He initiated a literary journal called 'Literature, the Arts, Culture and Education (LACE occasional publications),' which chronicles personalities and events within the industry.
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