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Background
Antu Yacob is an Oromo Ethiopian Americans actress, writer, and producer. She was born in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia and raised in San Francisco and Saint Paul, Minnesota. She is a graduate of Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University MFA in Acting Program. She received her BA in Communication from the University of Minnesota Duluth. Her play Mourning Sun had its NYC premiere in 2015 with Theatre167 and was featured in the Kampala International Theatre Festival 2016. After graduating from Mason Gross School of the Arts in 2005, she landed her first national touring gig understudying Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter in their show In The Continuum produced by Primary Stages and Perry Street Theatre. In August 2016, she appeared as Leonide in France-Luce Benson's award-winning Risen from the Dough

in the Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival at East 13th Street Theater in New York City. She has appeared in Angelica Nwandu and Jordana Spiro's NIGHT COMES ON (2018 Sundance Film Festival Premiere), Netflix's GYPSY, LAW & ORDER: SVU and Terra Luke Media's CONJURE (2017 American Hip Hop Film Festival Vanguard Award). Her one woman show IN THE GRAY premiered in New York at the United Solo Theatre Festival's 2017 season.