MALIKA OYETIMEIN received her MFA from The University of Washington's School of Drama. She is a member of the Directors Lab at Lincoln Center Theater and is in the cohort of the inaugural New Hope Colony Artist Residency, where she was nominated by stage, television and film director Liesl Tommy. She is also Merrimack Reparatory Theatre's Artist-in- Residence. She recently joined the MFA directing faculty at Boston University.
She was featured in Seattle’s City Art Magazine 2016 Future List and her productions of Booty Candy (2016) and Hoodoo Love (2017) were nominated for Gregory Awards: Best Production. She is also the co-adapter and director of Dr. Maya Angelou's I Know why the Caged Bird Sings (Book-It Repertory Theatre) which garnered a Gregory Award nomination for Best Director.
Select directing credits: Teenage Dick (Seattle Repertory Theatre) PASSAGE (Boston University) Fannie Lou Hamer : Speak on it (Merrimack Repertory Theatre) One in Two (Playbill.com) How I Learned What I Learned (Arden Theatre Co.) The workshop production of The First Deep Breath (National Black Theatre), The Bitter Game (Wallis Annenberg), Eclipsed (Southern Repertory Theatre), the world premiere of WHITE (Theatre Horizon) Barbecue, Bootycandy (Intiman Theatre Festival), And in this Corner: Cassius Clay (Seattle Children’s Theatre).
