Tesfaye Gessesse

Tesfaye Gesesse ( b. 1936 ) is considered one of the most important representatives of modern theater in Ethiopia.

For more than 40 years he has worked as an actor, director, writer, translator and theater director. Tesfaye Gesesse wrote and directed numerous plays, which were for the contemporary cultural landscape of Ethiopia and are of considerable importance.

Tesfaye Gesesses career began in the 1950s when he staged his first plays in Addis Ababa. After a theater studies in the USA, he was one of the founding members of the Creative Arts Center in Addis Ababa.

In 1974 he became director of the Hagerstown - Fikir Theatre. After two years there, he was released and arrested. The reason was the staging of his play " Iqaw ", which was considered by the then ruling Derg regime as anti- Derg and anti- revolutionary.

1976 Tesfaye was Gesesse director of the National Theatre Addis Ababa, then a professor at the University of Addis Ababa. Today, he still works as a publicist, translator and theater director.

  • Artist (Ethiopia )
  • Ethiopian
  • Born in 1936
  • Man
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