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Abate Mekuria was born on 1944 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Empire, is an Ethiopian director and playwright. Discover Abate Mekuria's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?
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Film, television and theatre director and producer, playwright, choreographer |
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72 years old |
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1944 |
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1944 |
| Birthplace |
Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Empire |
| Date of death |
20 July, 2016 |
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
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Ethiopia
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Abate Mekuria Height, Weight & Measurements
At 72 years old, Abate Mekuria height not available right now. We will update Abate Mekuria's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Abate Mekuria Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Abate Mekuria worth at the age of 72 years old? Abate Mekuria’s income source is mostly from being a successful Film. He is from Ethiopia. We have estimated Abate Mekuria's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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Film |
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Timeline
He attended the then Haile Selassie University, where he majored in English and minored in Theatre during the 1960s.
Abate Mekuria began his career working with American playwright and director Philip Caplan, who collaborated with several major contemporary Ethiopian playwrights and actors such as Tesfaye Gessesse, Debebe Seifu and Wogayehu Negatu.
Abate advanced his studies in theatre in Glasgow in the mid-1960s, and film in Germany in 1969-1970 before pursuing a Directing course in London.
Best known for his Shakespearean plays translated into Amharic, including adaptations of Macbeth, Othello, and Hamlet, Abate had a knack for making larger than life productions and complex plays.
Dubbed the ‘King of Ethiopian Opera’ Abate Mekuria found his passion melding music and theatre.
From 1976, in the capacity as director at the Ethiopian National Theatre until the 1991 revolution, Abate worked closely with Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, who for years almost exclusively wrote plays that Abate would direct.
Abate's talent would transform Tsegaye's long (and sometimes boring) monologues into captivating drama.
From his appointment in 1976 up to 1987, Abate refused to admit university graduates to the theatre despite pressures to do so, while other theatre houses did provide opportunities to students and young people.
Plastow claimed that "Abate Mekuria stood out as the director most jealously retaining his power, and possibly most nervous about losing it".
A skit has been circulating since 1987 which showed the scheme of the two men planning a programme to maintain their stranglehold over the theatre until 2010.
It was not until his rift with Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin in 1988 that Abate changed course, and allowed graduates to the theatre and plays by a variety of writers, in his final years at the theatre.
In 1990 he penned and directed The Shoe Shine Boys opera, which dealt with contemporary social issues of Ethiopia's lower classes, this would lead to government pressure, who viewed the play tarnished its image.
Jane Plastow in her 1996 book, criticized Abate Mekuria's and Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin's control over the theatre.
Abate Mekuria (አባተ መኩሪያ; 1944 – 20 July 2016) was an Ethiopian director, playwright, choreographer, and producer of shows for television, film and theatre.
Abate was born in Addis Ababa.
Abate Mekuria passed away on July 20, 2016, in Addis Ababa Hiwot Hospital due to prostate cancer.
