ADEYEMI Samuel Taiwo

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ADEYEMI Samuel Taiwo

Principal Ats Fellow

Email address(es): samayo55@gmail.com

Office Address: Department of Dramatic Arts O.A.U. Ile Ife, Osun State.

ORCID iD:  https://orchid.org/0009-0001-3164-180X

Academic Qualifications: Dip. (Ibadan), B.A. (Ibadan), M.A. (Ibadan).

Areas of Specialization: Technical Theatre, Costume and Makeup.

Title of M.A. Thesis: Special Effects in Nigerian Films: The study of Hubert Ogunde’s Aye and Jaiyesinmi.

Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Nil

Fellowships (If any):  Nil

Research Grants (If any):  Structural and Technical Limitations of Nigerian Playhouses and Performance Spaces Grant,  2000.

Ongoing Current Research: Critical evaluation of aesthetic and technical foundations of scenographic practice in Nigerian Universities.

List of Publications:

  1. Technical Theatre Practice in the Nigerian University System In Duro Oni and Sunday E. Ododo (eds.). Technical Theatre Practice in Nigeria. Lagos: Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization, (CBAAC) 110-124.
  2. Re-Inventing the African Family through Video Film: The Nollywood Paradigm, in Foluke Ogunleye (ed.) Africa Through the Eye of the Video Camera. Swaziland: Academic Publishers. 146-154.
  3. Towards Bridging the Gap Between the Academic and Professional Theatres in Nigeria, in Austin Asagba (ed.) Crosscurrent in African Theatre, Ibadan: Kraft books, 152-157.
  4. Yerima’s Comic Dramaturgy in The Lottery Ticket, in Muse and Mimesis: Critical Perspectives on Ahmed Yerima’s Drama, Gbemisola Adeoti (ed.), 2007, Spectrum Books Limited, Ibadan, 185-196.

Published Articles in Journal

  1. The Culture Specific Application of Sound in Nigerian Video Movies, in Nigerian Music Review, No.5 (September), 51-61.
  2. Video and Literacy: The Nigerian Experience, in LWATI: Journal of Contemporary Research. Volume 2. (June 2005). Swaziland, 16-23.
  3. Career Options in the Nigerian Theatre: An Entrepreneurial Approach. In Nigeria Theatre Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1. Lagos, 206-216.
  4. Gender Roles as a Source of Marital Conflict in Wale Ogunyemi’s The Divorce. In The Journal of Arts and Ideas (JAI) Vol. 9, (December). Ile-Ife. 67-78.
  5. Beyond Child’s Play: Puppetry as a Tool, for Rural Development in Nigeria in

APPLAUSE Journal of Theatre and Media Studies, Vol.1,No 2. 1-14.

2009/2010. Cultural Nationalism: The Nollywoodization of  Nigerian Cinema in Journal of Performing Arts, Volume 4, Number 1, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra.  63-74.

  1. The Therapeutic Potentials of Watching Wale Ogunyemi’s The Divorce: A Critique in Ife Journal of Languages and Literatures. Vol. 3, No. 1. (June 2017) 190-202.

PRODUCTIONS

  1. Set Design Comish Ekiye’s The Family
  2. Set Design T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral
  3. Set Design Rasaki Ojo Bakare’s Drums of War
  4. Set Design Ola Rotimi’s Initiation into Madness and Tororo
  5. Set Design Ola Rotimi’s Man Talk, Woman Talk
  6. Set Design Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle
  7. Set Design Ferdinand Oyono Mbia’s Three Suitors, One Husband
  8. Set Design Ola Rotimi’s Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again
  9. Set Design Akinwumi Ishola’s Madam Tinubu
  10. Set Design Wole Soyinka’s Death and The Kings Horseman
  11. Set Design Wale Ogunyemi’s The Divorce
  12. Set Design Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex (Foreign)
  13. Set Design Murray Schisgal’s The Tiger
  14. Set Design Femi Osofisan’s Eshu And The Vagabond Minstrels
  15. Set Design Rasheed Gbadamosi’s The Mansion
  16. Set Design Bode Sowande’s The Night Before
  17. Set Design Wale Ogunyemi’s Ijaye War
  18. Set Design Amos Tutuola’s The Palmwine Drinkard
  19. Set Design Ola Rotimi’s Ovonramwen Nogbaisi

Staff Profile (any other information not captured above):

Taiwo Adeyemi is a Principal Arts Fellow with greater emphasis on professional work and practical output rather than publications. His career spans over forty years designing sets and lighting for departmental and University convocation plays in Ghana and Nigeria. He is currently a Lecturer in Obafemi Awolowo University. He is also an actor, director and playwright, among his works are Sweet Agony (Ibadan: Caltop Publications, 1998), Oranmiyan (Ibadan: Jofel Books, 1999) and Fundamentals of Acting (Ibadan: Jofel Books, 2017).