PERFORMER:

Adenrele Ojo

**Adenrele Ojo **is a multi-AUDIE Award winner, has received several Earphone Awards and was one of Audiofile’s Best Voices of the Year 2015. She is a wearer of many creative hats: actress, audiobook narrator, producer and photographer.  Adenrele is a professional actor and has performed in such plays as: August Wilson’s **_Jitney _**and **_Joe Turner’s Come and Gone _**(nominated for an **L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Featured Actress**)**_ _**and **_The Ballad of Emmett Till_** (winner of the **2010 L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award & the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Best Ensemble) **both at The Fountain Theatre. Some of her film credits include **_Family_**, **_ELEVATE_ **and** **Lifetime’s **_Within_**; and her very own, **_Bathroom Vanities_**, a don’t-judge-a-book-by-it’s-cover comedy about one woman’s unforgettable experience in a ladies’ bathroom, which she starred, co-wrote and produced.  Ojo's many audiobooks include:** Stacey Abrams’s, **While Justice Sleeps**, **The Premonition** by Michael Lewis, **The Queen: Aretha Franklin** by Mikal Gilmore,** The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America **by Marcus J. Moore, **In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of Alice Walker’s Masterpiece** by Salamishah Tillet, **The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois (An Oprah’s Book Club Novel) **by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, **Billions and Billions **by Carl Sagan, **Black Futures** by Kimberly Drew & Jenna Wortham **and the multi-cast titles, Four Hundred Souls **edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain **and The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story **by Nikole Hannah-Jones**. ** **When she is not recording, you can sometimes find her directing authors, celebrity actors and other audiobook narrators.