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Ethiopian director and playwright

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Abate Mekuria (Amharic: አባተ መኩሪያ; 1944 – 20 July 2016) was an Ethiopian director, playwright, choreographer, and producer of shows for television, film and theatre.^[1]

Early life

Abate was born in Addis Ababa.

He attended the then Haile Selassie University, where he majored in English and minored in Theatre during the 1960s.^[2]

Career

Abate Mekuria began his career working with American playwright and director Philip Caplan, who collaborated with several major contemporary Ethiopian playwrights and actors such as Tesfaye Gessesse, Debebe Seifu and Wogayehu Negatu.

Abate advanced his studies in theatre in Glasgow in the mid-1960s, and film in Germany in 1969-1970 before pursuing a Directing course in London.^[3]

Best known for his Shakespeare