John ADEkoje

John ADEkoje’s awards include being a national award winner of The Kennedy Center’s ACTF Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award for the play Street Hawker; as well as a recipient of The Roxbury International Film Festival’s Emerging local Filmmaker award for the documentary “Street Soldiers”, which also showed at the Pan African Film Festival in Cannes, France, and The World Film Festival-Montreal, as well as the BronzeLens Film Festival in Atlanta. John has received the Brother Thomas Fellowship Award and he is a playwriting Fellow at the Huntington Theater Company. Most recently, he was awarded the Emerging Filmmaker Award for “Knockaround Kids”, his narrative feature, at the Roxbury International Film Festival which all showed at the Urbanworld Film festival in NY. “Knockaround Kids” can be found on Tubi, Amazon prime, Google Play, Apple and other film platforms. John Adekoje is the co-director and director of photography for the digital version of Hype Man (Company One/American Repertory Theatre) as well as the writer, director and projection/art designer for the Triggered Life Project (Portland Playhouse) John Oluwole ADEkoje, teaches film production and theatre at Boston Arts Academy.

(as of June 2022)