Michael Ajakwe Jr.

Michael Ajakwe Jr. has written & directed 9 plays and produced 16 that have been nominated for 29 NAACP Theater Awards, winning 5. He’s a two-time NAACP Image Award-winning Producer (Unsung, 2011&12), an NAACP Theatre Award-winning Playwright (Company Policy, 1994), an NAACP Theater Award-winning Producer (Ted Lange’s Four Queens, No Trump!, 1997), two-time NAACP Theatre Award Nominated Director (If You Don’t Believe: A Love Story– featuring the songs of Deniece Williams, 2005; Body Language– featuring the songs of Patti LaBelle, 2006), an Emmy Award-winning TV producer (E!’s Talk Soup, 1995), an award-winning filmmaker (Happy Anniversary, Punk!), a web series creator (Who… on Ajakwetv.com & Ajakwetv.com/mobile), and a historic festival founder (Los Angeles Web Series Festival – the first all-web series festival in the world– www.Lawebfest.com).

Nato e cresciuto a Los Angeles, Ajakwe graduated from Inglewood’s Morningside High, receiving the Outstanding Service Award. He attended the University of Redlands on an academic scholarship, earned Bachelor’s degrees in both English and Political Science, and was named Most Outstanding Senior of his graduating class. While still in college, he worked as a public relations writer for Redland’s Magazine, wrote freelance exposes for the Redlands Daily Facts, and for two years worked as a weekend sportswriter for the Riverside Press Enterprise.

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