Welcome to the official website of Ugo Chukwu. I am an actor and Teaching Artist based in NYC.
Click HERE for my resume.
Click HERE for my resume.
Recent News
June
- wrapped filming "Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story" for the Hallmark channel. Starring Matthew Daddario, Holland Roden, Steve Schirripa, and Joe Pantoliano. Check out this ARTICLE for more info.
- "Seasoned", a pilot I co-starred in back in 2022, starring Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Gordy was featured in Tribeca Film Festival. For more info, check out the Tribeca website.
May
- Became a recipient of the 2025 Brooklyn College Alumni Theater of the Year Award. It was a great honor to be recognized by my alma mater
- Recently played the lawyer SAUNDERS in the upcoming season of Netflix's The Night Agent, premiering later this year
- Took part in a workshop of the new musical "Ashwa", produced by The York Theatre.
January
- Took part in Clubbed Thumb Winterworks. Played the character of 1 in Sam Bell's piece "Il Bunkerini" directed by Iris McCloughan
- wrapped filming "Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story" for the Hallmark channel. Starring Matthew Daddario, Holland Roden, Steve Schirripa, and Joe Pantoliano. Check out this ARTICLE for more info.
- "Seasoned", a pilot I co-starred in back in 2022, starring Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Gordy was featured in Tribeca Film Festival. For more info, check out the Tribeca website.
May
- Became a recipient of the 2025 Brooklyn College Alumni Theater of the Year Award. It was a great honor to be recognized by my alma mater
- Recently played the lawyer SAUNDERS in the upcoming season of Netflix's The Night Agent, premiering later this year
- Took part in a workshop of the new musical "Ashwa", produced by The York Theatre.
January
- Took part in Clubbed Thumb Winterworks. Played the character of 1 in Sam Bell's piece "Il Bunkerini" directed by Iris McCloughan
Other News
Honored to have both shows I worked on featured in the best of Theater 2024!
"Usus" was listed in both The Vulture's The Best Theater of 2024 and Helen Shaw's
Best Theater of 2024 in the New Yorker.
"Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!" has appeared in The Vulture's Best Theater of 2024
"Usus" was listed in both The Vulture's The Best Theater of 2024 and Helen Shaw's
Best Theater of 2024 in the New Yorker.
"Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!" has appeared in The Vulture's Best Theater of 2024
Recently appeared in Soho Rep's world premiere of "Give me Carmelita Tropicana!" Written by Tony award winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Alina Troyano (aka Carmelita Tropicana). Directed by Eric Ting.
Here's what folks had to say about "Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!"
"There are moments of sheer comic bliss, often thanks to Chukwu’s dry delivery..."
- Helen Shaw, The New Yorker
"Branden (embodied with flawless comic precision by Ugo Chukwu)""Chukwu’s Branden, whose self-satirizing preening is tuned at just the right frequency."
"Chukwu pirouettes through this kind of winkingly pompous spiel with agility and verve."
"Chukwu—conjuring up Steve Martin as possessed by Lily Tomlin in All of Me"
- Sara Holdren Vulture
"Chukwu is dryly hilarious and charming as the play’s straight man (so to speak)"
- David Cote, The Observer
"Chukwu deftly toggles between realism and caricature in his portrayal of Jacobs-Jenkins, winkingly inviting us into this world of unreliable narrators and changing camera angles."
- Zachary Stewart, TheaterMania
"Chukwu, meanwhile, is the comic ideal of a successful, critically acclaimed playwright's avatar: a little vain, a little clueless, a little neurotic. He gets to do some hysterical slapstick....with Troyano that makes you buy Chukwu actually is her former star student..."
- Lauren Theisen, The Defector
"There are moments of sheer comic bliss, often thanks to Chukwu’s dry delivery..."
- Helen Shaw, The New Yorker
"Branden (embodied with flawless comic precision by Ugo Chukwu)""Chukwu’s Branden, whose self-satirizing preening is tuned at just the right frequency."
"Chukwu pirouettes through this kind of winkingly pompous spiel with agility and verve."
"Chukwu—conjuring up Steve Martin as possessed by Lily Tomlin in All of Me"
- Sara Holdren Vulture
"Chukwu is dryly hilarious and charming as the play’s straight man (so to speak)"
- David Cote, The Observer
"Chukwu deftly toggles between realism and caricature in his portrayal of Jacobs-Jenkins, winkingly inviting us into this world of unreliable narrators and changing camera angles."
- Zachary Stewart, TheaterMania
"Chukwu, meanwhile, is the comic ideal of a successful, critically acclaimed playwright's avatar: a little vain, a little clueless, a little neurotic. He gets to do some hysterical slapstick....with Troyano that makes you buy Chukwu actually is her former star student..."
- Lauren Theisen, The Defector