Nemuna Ceesay

Nemuna Ceesay (she/her) is thrilled to be making her Playwrights Horizons debut with Amusements! Select Directing Credits: Associate Director of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning A Strange Loop on Broadway, Metamorphoses and 12 Ophelias at Atlantic Acting School, the 66th Obie Awards, and the American Theatre Wing Gala (2022). She was also a 2022 Clubbed Thumb New Play Directing Fellow. Select Acting Credits: Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Shed, Second Stage, Two River, Joe’s Pub, PlayMakers Rep, Woolly Mammoth, A.R.T., The Public Theatre, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Select TV credits: Bull, Broad City, Instinct, Younger, FBI, Prodigal Son and Katy Keene. MFA in Acting from American Conservatory Theater. Nemuna is also the founder and Creative Director of an all BIPOC training program called The Blueprint. Follow her on Instagram @_nemuna_ and @theblueprintartist and visit her website at www.nemunarceesay.com

• “The jokes are MARVELOUSLY BIZARRE! Amusements isn’t just stand-up and it isn’t just send-up; IT’S WHAT EVERYTHING STRANGE AND WORTHWHILE IS — both, and more, and something else entirely.”

  — Sara Holdren, Vulture

• “Ikechukwu Ufomadu has a knack for turning traditional entertainment formats upside-down.”

  — Zachary Stewart, TheaterMania