Kwame Kwei-Armah, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Kwame Kwei-Armah

actor, playwright, singer, and broadcaster

Date of Birth: 25-Mar-1967

Place of Birth: Hillingdon, England, United Kingdom

Profession: screenwriter, actor, singer, playwright, television actor

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Kwame Kwei-Armah (born Ian Roberts; 24 March 1967 in Hillingdon, London) is a British actor, playwright, director, singer and broadcaster.
In 2005 he became the second black Briton to have a play staged in the West End of London.
(Ray Harrison Graham's Fringe First award-winning play GARY played at the Arts Theatre in 1990.) Kwei-Armah's award-winning piece Elmina's Kitchen transferred to the Garrick Theatre in 2005.
He is currently the artistic director of the Young Vic theatre in London, succeeding David Lan. Brought up in Southall, he changed his name at the age of 19 after tracing his family history, through the slave trade back to his ancestral African roots in Ghana.
His parents were born in Grenada.
He has four children. On 1 July 2011, he became artistic director of Center Stage in Baltimore, MD, succeeding Irene Lewis. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to drama.He became the chancellor of the University of the Arts on 7 March 2011.He was the Artistic Director of the Baltimore Center Stage Theatre from 2011 to 2018.
In 2018 he became the Artistic Director of the Young Vic in London.Kwei-Armah's son, who goes by the stage name of KZ, contributed production and vocals to Wretch 32 and Avelino's 2015 mixtape, Young Fire, Old Flame, and Wretch 32's third studio album, Growing Over Life, released in September 2016.