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ACTOR

Recent Projects: playing the EmCee in Cabaret (Center REP) and Oberon/Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Theatre, D.C.); originating the roles of James Baldwin in In The Evening by the Moonlight (Lorraine Hansberry Theatre), Salima in House of Joy (California Shakespeare Theatre), and Cellphone/Narrator in If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka (Playwrights Horizons, NYC).

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From Off-Broadway to regional theatres, I have performed at Yale Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Magic Theatre, among others, receiving awards and nominations including a Theatre Bay Area Award for Best Featured Actor for Robert O' Hara's Bootycandy.

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Reviews

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"There’s no bigger thrill than seeing masterful Rotimi Agbabiaka dancing, singing, gyrating in brilliant costumes, playing the emcee in a 1931 Berlin café. He drains every note for its deepest satirical meaning while dancing up a storm." 

Barry David Horwitz, Theatrius

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