Ugo Chukwu

THEATER: Purple Rain (Morris Day – Orin Wolfe Productions), USUS (Bernard – The Wild Project), Primary Trust (U/S Kenneth Beth; As Cast – Roundabout Theater), Oklahoma! (Cord Elam – National Tour), The Lunch Bunch Gang (Jacob – The Play Company), What to Send Up When It Goes Down (Six – The Movement Theater Company, Dir. Whitney White); Do You Feel Anger? (Jordan – Vineyard, Dir. Margot Bordelon); Lunch Bunch (Jacob – Clubbed Thumb, Dir. Tara Ahmadinejad); The Danger (Vic – JACK, Dir. Tiffany Nichole Greene); Ripcord (Scotty – Huntington, Dir. Jessica Stone); [Porto] (Raphael/Simon De Beauvior – Women’s Project, Dir. Lee Sunday Evans); Today is My Birthday (Kurt – Page 73, Dir. Kip Fagan); Adventure Quest (Ensemble – Edinburgh Fringe, Dir. Paige Blansfield); Minor Character… (Uncle Vanya – New Saloon, Dir. Morgan Green); Reread Another (Ensemble – Target Margin Theater, Dir. David Herskovits); King Sisyphus (Sisyphus – Stable Cable Lab Co, Dir. Alex Keegan); The Fabulous Miss Marie (Steve Benson – New Federal Theatre, Dir. Woodie King, Jr.); The Bad and The Better (Various Roles – The Amoralists, Dir. Daniel Aukin); JOB (God – Flea Theater, Dir. Benjamine Kamine); I Hate Fucking Mexicans (Eliaya/God – Flea Theater, Dir. Danya Taymor); These Seven Sicknesses (Theseus – Flea Theater, Dir. Ed Sylvanus Iskandar); King Lear (Duke of Albany – Teatro LaTea, Dir. Dara K. Marsh).

TV/FILM: Chow (Travis- Short Film), Facepaint (Raphael, Dir. Silvana Carranza), Seasoned (Guest Star – Jax Media), Inventing Anna (Co-Star – Netflix); Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Co-Star – Netflix); Driven (Supporting, Dir. David Shane), The Path (Co-Star – Hulu); NSA Soap Opera (Lead We – The Internet, Dir. Hamish Briggs); In Our Backyard (Guest Star – Cris Classics, Dir. Cris Thorne); Chilled to Perfection (Guest Star – Hat Trick Bitches, Dir. Nick Minas); Pedro Be Home (Lead – NY Film Academy, Dir. Rodrigo Ayres).

TRAINING: BFA, CUNY Brooklyn College; Studied Improv, movement, mask, stage combat, voice and speech, classical text

SPECIAL SKILLS: Dialect: New York, Nigerian; Tumbling; 1 handed front-flip, “kip-up”; Dance: Basic Ballroom, hip-hop, jazz and ballet

https://www.ugochukwuactor.com/