Dr.  Femi  Euba 

Distinguished Professor  - Theatre

Master's Degree: M.F.A. and M.A., Yale

PhD: Ph.D., Ife

Phone: (225) 578-2863

E-mail: theuba@lsu.edu

Office: 223F Allen Hall

Area of Interest

Black Drama and Playwriting.

Awards & Honors

Awards: Include:

- Arts Ambassador, Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, 2002
- LSU Alumni Association Faculty Excellence Award, LSU, 1997

Grants:

- Decentralized Art Funding, Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge (for production of
Maryse Conde’s The Tropical Breeze Hotel)  - 2002
- ETANT DONNE award for production of Maryse Conde’s The Tropical Breeze Hotel - 2001
- Board of Regents grant - Co-Coordinator and Reader - LSU Theatre Playwriting Contest -1995
- Board of Regents grant - Co-Coordinator and Reader - LSU Theatre Playwriting Contest -1993

Selected Publications

Books:Camwood at Crossroads (a novel) (PA: Xlibris, 2007)

Poetics of the Creative Process: Organic Practicum to Playwriting (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, June, 2005)

Archetypes, Imprecators and Victims of Fate: Origins and Developments of Satire in Black Drama(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989)

The Gulf: a full-length play (Lagos, Nigeria: Longman, 1991)

Plays:

In Database:
The Union and Dionysus of the Holocaust in BLACK DRAMA vol. II (VA: Alexander
Street Press, 2007) http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/BLDRLive

The Eye of Gabriel, The Gulf, Riddles on Greed: Three One-Acts (A Riddle of the
Palms, Crocodiles, & Chameleon) in BLACK DRAMA (VA: Alexander Street Press,
2002) http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/BLDRLive

--B.B.C. Radio Monographs:**
The Wig and the Honeybee (1976); 
The Devil (1970); 
Chameleon (1970);
Tortoise (1968); 
The Miser (1968) 
The Beggar (1968); 
The Game (1965);
Down by the Lagoon (1965); 
The Telegram (1964); 
The Yam Debt (1963)
**Also in BLACK DRAMA (VA: Alexander Street Press, 2003)

--In Journals and Anthologies:
“ A Riddle of the Palms,” Prism Review 2, 5(Spring 2008): 18-41

"Crocodiles," a one-act play, in Quarterly Journal of Ideology (LA: LSU in
Shreveport), June, 1995

"The Game," Ten One-Act Plays ed., Cosmo Pieterse (London: Heinemann
Educational Books, 1968).

"Abiku," Five African Plays, ed. Cosmo Pieterse (London: Heinemann
Educational Books, 1970).

Short Stories: (In Database)
“Fish and Chips;” 
“The Initiation, or Yields of the Harvest;” 
“The Organist;”
“A Sense of it All, or The Wedding;” 
“Cock and Bull” in Short Black Fiction (VA:
Alexander Street Press, 2006) http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/BLDRLive

Essays: Include:
--“Legba and the Politics of Metaphysics: The Trickster in Black Drama,” Black Theatre in
African Continuum, ed. Paul Carter Harrison, et al (Temple University Press, 2002)

--"Wole Soyinka" in a volume titled: Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical
Sourcebook, ed. Pushpa Parekh (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998)

 

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