Ato Essandoh Biography

Fast Facts

• Graduated from Cornell University with a B․S․ in chemical engineering
• Studied his craft as an actor at the Acting Studio in New York City
• Co-founded a writing and performance group called The Defiant Ones
• His theater credits include playing lead roles in productions of "Fish-eye," "Six Degrees of Separation" and "Death of a Salesman․"
• Can play the guitar and the blues harmonica and is a scuba diver
• His play "Black Thang" was published in the "Plays and Playwrights 2003" anthology
• At Cornell University, he joined the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and the Irving Literary Society