Esiaba Irobi was born in the Republic of Biafra and has lived in exile in Nigeria , Britain and the USA . He studied at the Universities of Nigeria, Sheffield , Leeds and holds a B.A. in English/Drama, M.A. Comparative Literature, M.A. Film/Theatre, and a PhD in Theatre Studies. His play, Cemetery Road , won the prestigious World Drama Trust Award for playwriting in 1992. His other published plays include Hangmen Also Die, The Colour of Rusting Gold, Nwokedi, Why the Vultures Head is Naked, What Song do Mosquitoes Sing? and the recently finished Foreplay commissioned by the Royal Court Theatre in London . He has directed numerous plays and productions in Ireland , Hungary , USA , Spain , Sweden , Denmark , Australia , England , Nigeria , Portugal and Scotland . His forthcoming books include Theorizing African Cinema: Ontology, Teleology, Semiology and Narratology (Routledge, London ) and Before They Danced in Chains: African Metalanguages in African-American Performance Aesthetics and a new adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Theatre, USA. He has just completed a very exciting book of poetry: Why I Don't Like Philip Larkin which will be published by Nsibidi Publishers in Massachusetts by August, 2003.