Chike Nwoffiah


Chike C. Nwoffiah is an actor, theater director, and filmmaker, and arts consultant.
Nwoffiah has served on several regional and national grant review panels including the National Endowment for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Sacramento Arts Commission, San Francisco Arts Commission, Arts Council Silicon Valley, Walter and Elise Haas Fund and the Center for Cultural Innovation. His latest project is a feature-length narrative film, Sabar, based on the African dance movement in the United States.
He was listed as one of the "Top Ten Most Influential African Americans" in the San Francisco Bay Area by CityFlight Magazine in 2000.

Education

Nwoffiah was educated at Government College, Umuahia, and the University of Lagos, before moving to the United States to study at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and the Hollywood Film Institute.

Career

He was the President of the Rhesus Media Group and Executive Director of the Oriki Theater, both in California. He was an Adjunct Faculty member at Menlo College, California. He was the Principal Partner in C3 Media, Abuja, Nigeria. He was the director of the Silicon Valley African Film Festival.
He has served on various arts councils, including: the Arts Council Silicon Valley Board of Trustees, as Chairman of the Grants Committee; the Board of Directors of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts ; and the Advisory Board for the California Black Arts Alliance. He was the President of Mountain View Community Television and Vice President of the Mountain View Chamber of Commerce, and was a board member of Palo Alto Red Cross.

Awards and recognition