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Effie Nkrumah

Effie Nkrumah is a Ghanian-Australian actor, writer and director. A contributor to Maxine Beneba Clarke’s Growing up African in Australia anthology, and a proud Western Sydney artist, Effie holds an MA in Arts Politics from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Driven by the concept of challenging the single story of Africa through stories of continental Africans in diaspora, Effie creates content that is entertaining, aesthetically pleasing and discussion-prompting. Her installation series See What I See has been performed in Sydney, New York, and Accra. She was a swing in the Australian cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, played Cleo in seven methods of k*lling kylie jenner and is the director of four new Australian plays by writers of African descent.

The plays include Ilarun: The Cutting Comb by Amarantha Robinson which will premiere at FortyFive Downstairs in Melbourne in November and Who No Kno Go Kno by Kuda Mapeza, an Afro-Futurist play about inter-generational relationships, climate change and the mining of cobalt, which will premiere as part of  Malthouse’s Suitcase Series for 2024 and 2025. Effie has also directed Akaraka by Amarachi Okorom for Empty Seat Theatre and Oshun, also by Amarantha Robinson at La Mama.

In NYC, Effie was a Director / Curator for Pure Nard Productions and curated, directed, choreographed the See What I See, Tableau Vivant Series which travelled to Accra and Sydney. She was the Deputy Artistic Director for Roverman Productions in Ghana for nine years and as an emerging artist worked with Bankstown Youth Development Services’ (BYDS) African Theatre Project in 2010-2011.