ZADIA IFE, is a producer, director, writer,
actress and educator. She is a graduate of Mason Gross School of
Performing Arts at Rutgers University where she studied with Avery
Brooks and Glenda Dickerson. Graduate studies were undertaken at
Cornel in African American Studies where she studied with Henry Louis
Gates and Yosef ben Johanan. After leaving Cornel she took her
doctoral courses also in African American Studies at Temple University
with Molefi and Kariamu Asante. She has taught courses in theater,
English and African American Studies at Temple, Lehigh University,
Ramapo College, Freedom Theater, The Christina Cultural Arts Center
and the University of Delaware.
During her career she has been fortunate to work with Kellita Smith,
Chaka Kahn, Iaasac Hayes, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Sherry Shepherd,
Valerie Pettiford, Mel Jackson, Leon, Monica Calhoun, Miguel Nunez,
Donn Swaby, Aloma Wright, Arnez J., a host of extraordinary musicians
and countless unknown stars in the making who have yet to make their
mark in the field of entertainment.
