Omar Sangare is a Polish

Poles

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 actor

Actor

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 and director, who graduated from the Theater Academy in Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

, where he studied with the Oscar winning director, Andrzej Wajda

Andrzej Wajda

Andrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...

. In 1994 he was awarded a scholarship to The British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England. While there he worked with Derek Jacobi

Derek Jacobi

Sir Derek George Jacobi, CBE is an English actor and film director.A "forceful, commanding stage presence", Jacobi has enjoyed a highly successful stage career, appearing in such stage productions as Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, and Oedipus the King. He received a Tony Award for his performance in...

, Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman

Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman is an English actor and theatre director. He is a renowned stage actor in modern and classical productions and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company...

, Michael Kahn

Michael Kahn (theatre director)

Michael Kahn is the Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., USA. He held the position of Richard Rodgers Director of the Drama Division of the Juilliard School from 1992 to 2006....

, and Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons

Jeremy John Irons is an English actor. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969, and has since appeared in many London theatre productions including The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the...

. In 2006, Sangare received his Ph.D.

Ph.D.

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 from the Theater Academy in Warsaw. Sangare taught at UCLA, UCSB, UCSD, Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...

, and Westmont College

Westmont College

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. Currently, he teaches in the Department of Theatre at Williams College

Williams College

Williams College is a private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams. Originally a men's college, Williams became co-educational in 1970. Fraternities were also phased out during this...

. In 2007, he became founder and artistic director of the Dialogue ONE

Dialogue ONE

Dialogue ONE is an international theatre festival of one-person theatre. Its founder and artistic director is Omar Sangare, actor and professor at Williams College.-History:...

, International Festival for solo performances at WilliamsTheatre.
He is also a leader of the United Solo

United Solo Theatre Festival

United Solo Theatre Festival is a theatre festival. It takes place at Theatre ROW on 42nd Street in New York City. Its Founder and Artistic Director is Omar Sangare...

 theatre project in New York City

New York City

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 (website).

He holds many film, television, and radio credits. For his one-man drama True Theater Critic, he was voted The Best in Acting by the New York International Fringe Festival

New York International Fringe Festival

The New York International Fringe Festival, or FringeNYC, is a Fringe theater festival and one of the largest multi-arts events in North America. It takes place over the course of two weeks every August, spread across several neighborhoods in downtown Manhattan, notably the Lower East Side, the...

 in 1997. The same year Sangare was invited to the Jerzy Grotowski

Jerzy Grotowski

Jerzy Grotowski was a Polish theatre director and innovator of experimental theatre, the "theatre laboratory" and "poor theatre" concepts....

 Theater in Wroclaw

Wroclaw

Wrocław , situated on the River Oder , is the main city of southwestern Poland.Wrocław was the historical capital of Silesia and is today the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. Over the centuries, the city has been part of either Poland, Bohemia, Austria, Prussia, or Germany, but since 1945...

, Poland, where he won four prizes at the Theater Festival. His award-winning monodrama was presented in Poland, Canada

Canada

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, England

England

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, Ukraine

Ukraine

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, Germany

Germany

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, and the United States

United States

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. Recently, acclaimed by the press for his lead part in the Arena Players Repertory Theater production of Othello

Othello

The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565...

. Barbara Delatiner included the distinct conclusion in her article for The New York Times

The New York Times

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, that Sangare was "born to play Othello."

Sangare's published literary works include two books of poetry

Poetry

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: Postscriptum and Landscape of the Soul, collections of short stories titled Tales for Old Horse, and Tales for Black Sheep as well as many essays and articles for various magazines and newspapers in Poland. Accompanied by great American writers such as Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections of his own poetry...

, and Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag was an American author, literary theorist, feminist and political activist whose works include On Photography and Against Interpretation.-Life:...

 he promoted Polish literature

Polish literature

Polish literature is the literary tradition of Poland. Most Polish literature has been written in the Polish language, though other languages, used in Poland over the centuries, have also contributed to Polish literary traditions, including Yiddish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, German and...

 in the United States. In 2003, he released his first solo album, ON. He also recorded Polish Christmas Carol

Christmas carol

A Christmas carol is a carol whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas or the winter season in general and which are traditionally sung in the period before Christmas.-History:...

s for television station TVP1 in Poland. In 2005 he published Tales for Decent Man. Both Tales for Old Horse and Tales for Black Sheep are bestseller

Bestseller

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s in Poland. His recent publication is "Othello. Pale from Envy" which is a book version of his doctoral thesis.

Omar Sangare has been selected by the U.S. Department of State for a video project that appeared as part of President Obama’s

Barack Obama

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 trip to Poland in May 2011, as one of "prominent Polish Americans who are proud of their heritage while having an impact on America’s social and cultural fabric."

He is a cousin of a Malian singer Oumou Sangare

Oumou Sangaré

Oumou Sangare is a Malian Wassoulou musician, sometimes referred to as "The Songbird of Wassoulou." Wassoulou is a historic region south of the Niger River, and the music there is descended from traditional hunting songs, and is accompanied by a calabash...

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