Ahamefule J. Oluo

Ahamefule J. Oluo is a Seattle-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, writer, and stand-up comedian. He is a founding member and trumpet player in the award-winning jazz-punk quartet Industrial Revelation, was a semi-finalist in NBC's Stand Up for Diversity comedy competition, and co-produced comedian (and writing partner) Hari Kondabolu's albums Waiting for 2042 and Mainstream American Comic, for Kill Rock Stars. Oluo has appeared on This American Life and is a recipient of the prestigious Creative Capital Award. He has premiered two autobiographical musicals at the Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival: Now I'm Fine (2016), which New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley described as "a New Orleans funeral march orchestrated by Arnold Schoenberg," and Susan (2020), which Brantley called "virtuosic" and "crackerjack." Now I'm Fine was adapted into the film Thin Skin, co-written, starring, and scored by Oluo and is set for a late 2020 release.