BORN: Lagos, Nigeria
LANGUAGES: English, German, Yoruba
EDUCATION: University of Lagos Nigeria (Marketing)
Filmakademie Wien (Production, Directing, Script)
Hochschule für Bildende Kunst (stage/costume)
Reinhardt Seminar (acting/choreography)
PROFESSIONS:
Filmproducer,Actor, Author,Choreographer, Curator, Playwrite
A short history:
Davis O. Nejo is a notable actor, curator for African Media Art, writer and film and theater producer. For his outstanding work in acting he won the Black International Cinema Award (Berlin, 2000), for his monthly tv art-magazine he received the Erasmus Euro Media Award (Vienna, 2006). and for his curatorial work he was awarded with the Intercultural Prize (Linz, 1998).
Early life and Education:
Davis O. Nejo (also known as Deji Nejo) was born in Lagos,the former capital of Nigeria, in 1953. After his college education and his first diploma at the University of Lagos (Insitute of Marketing) he served the nation and left to Vienna, Austria in 1975, where he studied film, tv-production and acting. Davis O. Nejo started to promote African culture in Austria, and founded many organisations among others the "African Students Union", "Union of African Journalists", "Nigerain Social Club", "AAAA Austrian African Artists Association", AFRICA - African International Center in Austria", "Cross Cultural Communication", "@rtScreen" and many music groups such as "Egbe Omo Oduduwa" (a Yoruba cultural group), "Afro Strangers" and "Vienna Percussion Circle" (uniting artists from different continents) and "BAMA - Black Art and Music Association".
He played a successful role in the production of Falco’s “Rock me Amadeus”, as musician and actor in the video. (view Davis O. Nejo on youtube in "Rock me Amadeus", etc.) He promoted the song in the US American Top 40, which made the music ánd Davis O. Nejo international.
Since 1975 he has been working as actor in the best german-speacking theaters in Europe (Theater an der Josefstadt “Vom Teufel geholt”, “Herbstgarten”, Burgtheater “Kabale und Liebe”, “Die Schlacht um Wien”, Schauspielhaus “Medea”, Volkstheater “Baby Doll”, etc.) as well as in film and tv („Iris und Violetta“, Tatort“, „Altes Geld“, etc.) and in cinema (“Der Schatten den Schreibers”, “The Poet”, „The other“, „Paganini – Der Teufelsgeiger“, „3 Eier im Glas“, etc.).
Awards:
Erasmus Euro Media Award
Black International Cinema Award
Interkulturpreis OÖ
Memberships:
VÖFS
VDFS
VAM
VBK
a.k.m.
literar mechana
LANGUAGES: English, German, Yoruba
EDUCATION: University of Lagos Nigeria (Marketing)
Filmakademie Wien (Production, Directing, Script)
Hochschule für Bildende Kunst (stage/costume)
Reinhardt Seminar (acting/choreography)
PROFESSIONS:
Filmproducer,Actor, Author,Choreographer, Curator, Playwrite
A short history:
Davis O. Nejo is a notable actor, curator for African Media Art, writer and film and theater producer. For his outstanding work in acting he won the Black International Cinema Award (Berlin, 2000), for his monthly tv art-magazine he received the Erasmus Euro Media Award (Vienna, 2006). and for his curatorial work he was awarded with the Intercultural Prize (Linz, 1998).
Early life and Education:
Davis O. Nejo (also known as Deji Nejo) was born in Lagos,the former capital of Nigeria, in 1953. After his college education and his first diploma at the University of Lagos (Insitute of Marketing) he served the nation and left to Vienna, Austria in 1975, where he studied film, tv-production and acting. Davis O. Nejo started to promote African culture in Austria, and founded many organisations among others the "African Students Union", "Union of African Journalists", "Nigerain Social Club", "AAAA Austrian African Artists Association", AFRICA - African International Center in Austria", "Cross Cultural Communication", "@rtScreen" and many music groups such as "Egbe Omo Oduduwa" (a Yoruba cultural group), "Afro Strangers" and "Vienna Percussion Circle" (uniting artists from different continents) and "BAMA - Black Art and Music Association".
He played a successful role in the production of Falco’s “Rock me Amadeus”, as musician and actor in the video. (view Davis O. Nejo on youtube in "Rock me Amadeus", etc.) He promoted the song in the US American Top 40, which made the music ánd Davis O. Nejo international.
Since 1975 he has been working as actor in the best german-speacking theaters in Europe (Theater an der Josefstadt “Vom Teufel geholt”, “Herbstgarten”, Burgtheater “Kabale und Liebe”, “Die Schlacht um Wien”, Schauspielhaus “Medea”, Volkstheater “Baby Doll”, etc.) as well as in film and tv („Iris und Violetta“, Tatort“, „Altes Geld“, etc.) and in cinema (“Der Schatten den Schreibers”, “The Poet”, „The other“, „Paganini – Der Teufelsgeiger“, „3 Eier im Glas“, etc.).
Awards:
Erasmus Euro Media Award
Black International Cinema Award
Interkulturpreis OÖ
Memberships:
VÖFS
VDFS
VAM
VBK
a.k.m.
literar mechana