About Us
Using Theater, Art, Dance and Music to celebrate African culture, its Heritage and the people
Herbert Macaulay Colloquium
by Macaulay Heritage Fóundation
GLADSTONE OLUFEMI MACAULAY
Founder and Chairman of Board
WALE MACAULAY
Artistic Director
Wale Macaulay is a versatile artiste educated in Nigeria and in England. He is an actor, poet, director, and a playwright. His works on stage and screen has drawn critical acclaim locally and internationally. Prominent among his performances on stage are Wole Soyinka’s Swamp Dwellers, Ola Rotimi’s Kurunmi and The Gods are not to blame, Friedrich Durrenmatt’s Conversation at Night, and Femi Osofisan’s Twingle Twangle.
On screen, he is better known for remarkable roles in Amaka Igwe’s Violated, Tunde Kelani’s celebrated Thunderbolt (Magun) and O l’eku and the MNET hit cable television series Doctors Quarters and Tinsel. Others are National Television drama credits which read like a list of virtually all the hit series in the past thirty years from National Television Authority (NTA) play of the week series through Mirror in the Sun, Third Eye, Charley Boy Show, Chevron Drive and Stay Alive and Family ties, to Super Story and Everyday People. He played the lead character Akin Coker in his first ever sitcom series, Keeping it Real on which he was also the Associate Producer.