Theater and Dance
Contact
Department Chairs:
Ann Cooper Albright, Dance
Roger Copeland, Theater

Administrative Assistant:
Janice Sanborn

Department Email:


Phone: (440) 775-8152
Fax: (440) 775-8340

Location:
Warner Center 100
30 N. Professor St.
Oberlin, OH, 44074

Justin Emeka

Justin Emeka

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

E-mail:


Office:
Rice Hall 7
(440) 775-8648

Justin Emeka

Photo by Tanya Rosen-Jones

Educational Background

  • Bachelor of Arts, Oberlin College, 1995
  • Master of Fine Arts, University of Washington, 2005


Justin Emeka works professionally as an actor, writer, director, and capoeirista. His directing credits include Dutchman, The Glass Menagerie, Macbeth,A Raisin in the Sun, and StopKiss, directed at Oberlin during the spring of 2006. In addition, Mr. Emeka creates original works including Sankofa Theater, Pressure: A Hip-Hop Theater Experience, Where the Wild Things At! and The Revolution Will Not Be Televised! Mr. Emeka is a member of Actors Equity and has performed at the Yale Repertory Theatre, ACT, the Intiman Theater, Seattle Children’s Theater, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center , and the Seattle Group Theater. He has studied Capoeira Angola for over 10 years, and was one of the first students of Mestre Jurandir in the United States .


 
News

Public Feldenkrais Workshop with Ethan Cowan '07 on Saturday March 16

Mar. 12, 2013

Oberlin alum Ethan Cowan '07 returns to campus this week to engage in a series of workshops based on the Feldenkrais Method. An introduction workshop open to the public will be held Saturday March 16 at 10:00am in Warner Main Space


Hot Dances, Cool Gestures: Dance in the Weimar Republic, March 14

Mar. 10, 2013

Thursday March 14th at 4:30pm. The Harold Jantz Memorial Lecture featuring Gabriele Brandstetter, University Professor of Theater and Dance Studies, University of Berlin. King 306.


Essence presents Dance Diaspora III

Feb. 27, 2013

Oberlin's Dance Diaspora spring performance embarks on a journey through tradition and culture from Boké, Guinea. March 8th and 9th in Warner Main Space.


Dance at Oberlin Newsletter, February 2013

Feb. 12, 2013

The first of our monthly newsletters for the Oberlin Dance program. In This Issue: Amy Miller, Girls in Motion, Water Ways, Lionel Popkin '91, New Department Blog and a Summer Intensive. And old people dancing.


Choreographer Amy Miller Creates New Work During Winter Term

Feb. 11, 2013

In January of 2013, the Oberlin Dance Department welcomed dancer and choreographer Amy Miller to campus for an ongoing workshop during winter term. Twenty-six students came together spending their winter mornings in a contemporary technique class with Miller, while sixteen students also worked to create a piece entitled Distill for the Oberlin Dance Company concert in May.