Performer Stuff Pro Series host, Mark Pawsey catches up with Omar F. Okai,  Resident Director on Disney’s Bedknobs & Broomsticks UK Tour. Mark and Omar met over 30 years ago when they were both working on King – The Martin Luther King Musical, at the Piccadilly Theatre in London’s West End. Listen to Omar talk about how he started in the business as a performer and what it took to begin, develop, and then maintain his own Company, The Okai Collier Company which has been breaking down social barriers and encouraging new talent since 1994. Omar is a successful Choreographer and Director having worked on over 90 productions to date and still counting.
OMAR F. OKAI is the Co-Director/Founder/ of the Black British Theatre Awards (#BBTAS), whose inaugural ceremony was in October 2019. He is also the Artistic Director of The Okai Collier Company for over 20 years.
He has directed/choreographed internationally in France, Spain, Germany, Shanghai, and Britain, with over 90 productions, videos, and documentaries. Productions included are Five Guys Named Moe, Cabaret, Rent, Annie, Peter Pan, Elegies for Angel’s, Punks and Raging Queens, Smiling State, Honk!, Assassins’ (Mountview Theatre School) Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Performance Preparation Academy) Sweet Charity. He is also an International Musical Theatre Examiner for Urdang International. Omar has worked in Shanghai directing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Jnr, Honk, and Once On This Island. In his own right, Omar is an accomplished west end performer, credits are King, Five Guys Named Moe (original cast), Sweet Charity, My One and Only, Honk!, Candide, and Villains Opera.
He is also an experienced performing arts teacher in dance and drama and has taught in a vast array of performing arts schools. Omar is also in preparation for his own penned musical Celia which is going into workshop.

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