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Omar F. Okai Interview for Performers Stuff Pro Series: Part 1- From being a Performer to running a successful Theater Company<\/strong><\/h3>\n \"\"<\/a><\/span>

Written by:\u00a0Mark Pawsey<\/p>\n

July 29, 2021<\/p>\n<\/font>

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Performer Stuff Pro Series host, Mark Pawsey catches up with Omar F. Okai, currently rehearsing Disney\u2019s Bedknobs & Broomsticks prior to its UK premiere and Tour, on which he is Resident Director. Mark and Omar met over 30 years ago when they were both working on King \u2013 The Martin Luther King Musical, at the Piccadilly Theatre in London\u2019s West End. Listen to Omar talk about how he started in the business as a performer and what it took to begin, develop and then maintain his own Company, The Okai Collier Company which has been breaking down social barriers and encouraging new talent since 1994. Omar is a successful Choreographer and Director having worked on over 90 productions to date and still counting.<\/p>\n

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Meet Choreographer and Director Omar F. Okai<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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OMAR F. OKAI<\/strong><\/p>\n

OMAR F. OKAI is the Co-Director\/Founder\/ of the Black British Theatre Awards (#BBTAS), who’s inaugural ceremony was October 2019. He is also the Artistic Director of The Okai Collier Company for over 20 years.<\/p>\n

He has directed\/choreographed internationally, France, Spain, Germany and Shanghai and of course Britain, over 90 productions, videos and documentary. Productions included are\u00a0Five Guys Named Moe, Cabaret, Rent, Annie, Peter Pan, Elegies for Angel\u2019s, Punks and Raging Queens,\u00a0Smiling State, Honk!, Assassins’\u00a0<\/em>(Mountview Theatre School)\u00a0Best Little Whorehouse in Texas\u00a0<\/em>(Performance Preparation Academy)\u00a0Sweet Charity<\/em>. He is also an International Musical Theatre Examiner for Urdang International. This year sees Omar returning to Shanghai to direct\u00a0Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Jnr, Honk,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Once On This Island<\/em>. In his own right Omar is an accomplished west end performer, credits are\u00a0King<\/em>,\u00a0Five Guys Named Moe\u00a0<\/em>(original cast),\u00a0Sweet Charity,\u00a0My One and Only, Honk!,\u00a0Candide\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Villains Opera.<\/em><\/p>\n

He is also an experienced performing arts teacher in dance and drama and has taught in vast array of performing arts schools. Omar is also in preparation for his own penned musical Celia going into workshop.<\/p>\n

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WATCH: <\/span><\/strong>Omar F. Okai Interview for Performers Stuff Pro Series: Part 1- From being a Performer to running a successful Theater Company<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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