Playwright and Director | SIXTUS CHETACHI 'CHETA' IGBOKWE

Sixtus Chetachi 'Cheta' Igbokwe is an MFA playwriting candidate at the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and a Graduate Teaching Assistant. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Literary Studies from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he served as the Editor of the University of Nigeria's students' journal, 'The Muse'; a journal of creative and critical writing and the oldest-surviving students' journal in West Africa, founded by Chinua Achebe in 1963. He is a 2019 alumnus of the Purple Hibiscus Trust Creative Writing Workshop, facilitated and taught by the Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. He wrote the screenplay of 'Island of Happiness' ('Agwaetiti Obiuto')—a film, which was described by the Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, as a “magnificent work of art.” His works have appeared in Oyster River Pages, Selfies and Signatures Anthology, The Muse, and elsewhere. He is the winner of The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Prize for Drama 2021, for his play, Homecoming.