Antu Yacob is an actor, playwright, screenwriter, and producer. Her plays have been produced by Kampala International Theatre Festival, InterAct Theatre, United Solo Theatre Festival, Project Y Theatre, Theatre167, and Mile Square Theatre. She is a cohort member of The Fire This Time Festival’s New Works Lab Cycle 4.

As an actor, her on-screen credits include Rob Peace (written and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor), Jelly (2023 ABFF/HBO Short Film Award winner), Night Comes On, Inventing Anna, The Other Two, Daredevil, Gypsy, Law & Order: SVU, Adieu Lacan, Signs of Aging, Brooklyn Park, and Conjure.

Her stage credits include work with The Fire This Time Festival, American Slavery Project, Primary Stages, Sheen Center, Crossroads Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Luna Stage, North Carolina Black Repertory, Peterborough Players, Cincinnati Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Mixed Blood Theatre, Pangea World Theatre, and Pillsbury House Theatre.

Antu’s film Love in Submission was part of Full Spectrum Features’ collection Our Right to Gaze: Black Film Identities.

Her voice can be heard on the “Druid Hills” episode of Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History and the audiobook Addis Ababa Noir by Maaza Mengiste. As an Associate Producer with Project Y Theatre, she curates All Hands on Deck, a commissioned series of new plays by female writers of the African diaspora.

She earned an MFA in Acting from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.