Theater and Stage: Oliver Mbamara started performing in his kindergarten years during School concerts and somehow he managed to continue performing even while running his own law firm after graduating from law school. Looking back, he remains grateful for the opportunity he had and the experience he acquired while touring many parts of Nigeria performing with the “Prime Circle Theater Troupe.” Working side by side with talented artistic director, Sanctus Okereke and some other talented performers like Onyi Okoye, Duke Ukaeje, Titi Akinmoye, Oliver watched his talent flourish as not just an actor but also as an all-round performer and playwright. 

Just a few years after arriving in the United States, Oliver played the lead role in an off Broadway Dance Drama – “Prisoner of The Kalakiri” written by Prof. Chudi Uwazuruike in 2001. In 2003, working with Producer Tony Duru and “Odenigbo Theater” Oliver played the lead-actor role in Zulu Sofola’s “Wedlock of The Gods.” Oliver continues to perform on stage and in films. He is presently starring in two feature films – THIS AMERICA and SLAVE WARRIOR respectively as the lead-actor

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The Playwright: In the late eighties Oliver wrote scripts and performed in most of them for a comedy group among others. In the early nineties he joined the Prime Circle Theater Troupe and wrote several scripts for them including a historic spiritual piece titled “This Transition Called Death.” Subsequently, he has written several plays including the “The Flame of Love,” A Musical Dance Drama written for Broadway and the “The New Yam Bandit,” an African play, written for schools as an introduction to early-African culture and systems of justice and punishment. 

The New Yam Bandit: An African play written and directed by Oliver Mbamara. Details Coming Soon, courtesy of www.AfricanTheaterUSA.com  

"Flame of Love" written by Oliver O. Mbamara, A musical Dance Drama

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"Wedlock of The Gods" by Zulu Sofola. Directed by Oliver Mbamara (also played lead role), produced by Tony Duru, and performed by the Odenigbo Theater and Dance Group 

PRISONER OF THE KALAKIRI written by Professor Chudi Uwazuruike, directed by Bethels Agomuo, and produced by Ed Onaodowan and the Nakanu Players. Lead-role by Oliver Mbamara. Debuted 2003, off Broadway and Brooklyn Theaters, New York. ABOVE is a scene - "The Trial," Manga (Oliver Mbamara) ridicules Okoko's court. 

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