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David Ogunde (President)

As his father was staging the premier performance of a play in which David later starred, David was born back stage at the old Glover Hall in Lagos Nigeria. His father Chief (Dr) Hubert Ogunde was the doyen of the Nigerian Theatre and film making. David joined his father’s production company since the age of sixteen, performing to thousands of audiences, which always packed the halls and theatres where they performed from Nigeria to the end of the coast of West Africa, in Senegal. The company also performed internationally, from Apollo Theatre in Montreal Canada to the coast of England such as Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, Chattam, Lancashire and Southend-on-Sea.

The troupe, comprising of forty dancers, actors, actresses and performers, performed in the then newly commissioned London’s Fairfield Halls Croydon, Wimbledon Theatre, and was the first African Troupe to perform in the then largest European festival of arts held in Langollen Eisteddfod in Wales under a tent of an audience of ten thousand on July 13th 1969. The troupe also featured in the film ‘Oblong Box’ starring by Vincent Price and Christopher Lee as well as a number of BBC performances. The BBC did a one-hour documentary of Hubert Ogunde and his works in 1980. In 1990 the company hosted and featured in the production of ‘Mr. Johnson’ starring Pierce Brosnan, Edward Woodward and directed by Bruce Beresford.

While with his father, David was a front line dancer, actor, performer, and choreographer. At the age of twenty-one, he started his own troupe ‘Kunle Ogunde Theater’, wrote his plays, his songs and directed his own production company which became a famous Theatre Company in Nigeria. He wrote several plays such as ‘Ekunola’, ‘Olufadere’, ‘Innocent heads at the grove’ etc.

David became born again in 1979 and later heard the call of God to use the same means he and his father had used, to preach the gospel. He then started and led The Word Productions a Christian Theatre ministry for eight years. The ministry performed to several hundreds and thousands of Christian audiences in Nigeria and published some of their works. Several people came to know the Lord as a result of these performances and many of them are still standing today in the Lord. Activities also included regular weekly Bible study and quarterly weekend retreats, which were designed to feed, prepare and mature actors and actresses spiritually.

David is a writer, producer, director, choreographer, Cinematographer, Avid and Media 100 editor, computer engineer and programmer.
Rose Marie A. Ogunde (CEO)

Rose Marie, David's wife, became born again in 1982, and holds a degree in English and Theatre Arts, from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. She founded and led the Christian Film Ministry in Atlanta Georgia, USA in 1994-1995 and wrote, produced and directed the play ‘No Turning Back’ which attracted several Christian audiences and was very successful in the USA. The Christian Film Ministry is now merged with Globalfilma. Rose Marie is a writer, producer, and director.



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