Ekemini Ekpo

tl;dr: Ekemini Ekpo is a writer and researcher (often), theatre-maker (sometimes), and southerner (always). She loves using asterisks to censor words that are not actually pr*f*ne, and invariably yearns for the last place she left.

muck rack

linkedin

actor resume
and headshot

Writing

tl;dr: Ekemini is a product of the “tumblr fandom discourser” to “chronically online twitter x pontificator” to “journalist and critic” pipeline. She has bylines in New York Review of Architecture, Urban Omnibus, TheBody, Howlround Theatre Commons, and other publications. 

If she wrote it, it’s probably about theatre and/or race and/or gender and/or urban life. 

fellowships

bylines (non-exhaustive—for that, check Muckrack)

2025 [Essay] “‘The Shortest Ramp Is a Longer Road” Urban Omnibus

2025 [Essay] “‘Boy-Skirts for One, Boy-Skirts for All” Articles of Interest

2024 [Review] “‘LINES’ 3-in-1: A Timeline Review” 3 Views

2024 [Reporting] “Love Means Nothing” New York Review of Architecture

2023 [Essay] “Gentrification-Core” New York Review of Architecture

2023 [Interview] “Eviction Is an Act of Violence: Interview With Leah Goodridge” TheBody

2023 [Essay] “Our Rage Is Not Sustainable” TheBody

2022 [Essay] “Seeing Double: Double Consciousness as a Black Theatre Practitioner” Howlround Theatre Commons

2022 [Essay] “The Exhausting, Endless Black Trauma-Art Feedback Loop” Mental Hellth