Name: TYPE/CASTE
Start: 2017-06-15T20:00:00-07:00
End: 2017-06-15T21:30:00-07:00
Location: The Flight Deck

TYPE/CASTE

Rotimi Agbabiaka (writer, performer) is an actor, singer, writer, director, and teaching artist. He most recently appeared in Bootycandy at Brava Theater, Schooled (Thomas Jones) with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, Sojourners (Disciple Ufot) and runboyrun (boy) at Magic Theatre, in Hair (Hud) with Bay Area Musicals, Holiday High Jinx (Dancing Dan) with Word for Word, Choir Boy (Junior) at Marin Theatre Company, The Amen Corner (David) with Alter Theater, We Are Proud To Present ... (Another Black Man) at Just Theater, and Raisin in The Sun (Asagai) at Cal Shakes. He is a collective member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, a former cast member at Beach Blanket Babylon, and his solo play, Homeless, won Best Solo Performance at the SF Fringe Festival. As a director he helmed the world premiere of VS. at TheatreFIRST. He also teaches youth theatre with Each One Reach One, SF Shakespeare, and the SF Mime Troupe Youth Theatre Project, and is the Features Curator for Theatre Bay Area’s online magazine. He studied at Moscow Art Theatre and earned his MFA from Northern Illinois University. Learn more at http://www.rotimionline.com/

Rotimi Agbabiaka

In Lagos, Nigeria, a young boy tries on his mother’s wedding dress and discovers a liberating world of make-believe. His dreams of a dazzling theatrical career bring him to America, where he discovers that he'll have to leap over obstacles placed by an industry that isn't always welcoming to applicants who are neither white nor straight. 
In this hilarious solo show, which premiered at NQAF in 2016, San Francisco Mime Troupe and Beach Blanket Babylon veteran Rotimi Agbabiaka shape-shifts from character to character and uses monologue, song, dance, and drag to embody, explore, and expose the battles minority artists fight in the exclusive world of mainstream American theatre. 
Based on Rotimi’s real life experience as a professional actor, Type/Caste is a fast paced and humorous journey into the peaks, pitfalls, and hallucinations of a young artist's quest for success in a gentrified and commercialized industry. Hailed as a “spectacular, neon-drenched coup-de-theatre,” Type/Caste is a personal look at the politics of (mis-) representation on the American stage.

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