Godfred Nana Kruentsi Ogoe is a PhD student in English, specializing in English Renaissance literature with a focus on epistolary culture. Before joining Ohio State, he earned an MFA and MLitt in Shakespeare and Performance from Mary Baldwin University, where he was twice awarded the Literary Curator Fellowship and served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow in African Dance. He co-founded the Streetlight Shakespeare Ensemble and performed with the company in The Goblins, Bartholomew Fair, Much Ado About Nothing, and Henry VI, Part 1, with theater reviews written about him on The Bardathon website. He was twice nominated by the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, VA, to perform in two scholarly presentations during the 11th Blackfriars conference. He also co-led workshops with the playhouse. As a creative writer, he has published Save Our Faces, a prose fiction engaging Shakespearean themes through a Ghanaian sociocultural lens, and contributed to poetry anthologies including An Emotion Called Home and An Adventure Called Life. He is currently creating a conflation of Hamlet and Othello titled HamOthello. He presented this project at the BritGrad 2025 Conference (University of Birmingham, UK) and is scheduled to speak on it at the Ohio Valley Shakespeare 2025 Conference. He will also present at the 2025 Global Epistolary Conference at The Open University, UK, to uncover how Shakespeare’s dramatic letters foster a communal reception in the plays. Bridging scholarship and stage, Ogoe continues to engage audiences and academic communities with work that reimagines Shakespeare through a critical, global, and performative lens. 

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