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Amara has worked on television, in film, and onstage in New York and regionally, on both classical plays and in new work. He received his MFA from the Old Globe/ University of San Diego's Shiley Graduate Theatre Program, and his B.A. in Government from Cornell University. As a teaching artist, Amara trained with Community-Word Project and Epic Theatre Ensemble, cultivating a teaching practice that is socially engaged, empathetic, and curious. His teaching career has taken him from Title I schools in Brooklyn and the Bronx, to correctional facilities in upstate New York, to the Powerhouse Training Program at Vassar College. He is currently a member of the faculty at Montclair State University’s BFA Acting program. When not working, Amara enjoys reading speculative fiction and arguing with West Africans about the superiority of Nigerian jollof rice.