Tracie Chima Utoh-Ezeajugh is a Professor of Theatre and Film Design, who has also executed projects and carried out researches in the areas of Migration and Gender studies. She studied Theatre/ Dramatic Arts at the Universities of Ife (OAU), Jos, and Port Harcourt, all in Nigeria. Utoh-Ezeajugh holds many Post-Doctoral Fellowship Awards. She is a Bellagio Residency Rockefeller Fellow (2008) and a Fellow of the African Humanities Program (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) 2009/2010. She was appointed a member of the NUC National Technical Committee on Nigerian Universities Arts and Culture Festival in 2010. She is an Assessor, Adviser and Mentor for AHP and for many other award -giving bodies. She is a member of the Nigerian country team for the African Humanities Programme. She is an ASA Presidential Fellow (2015). She led the team of scholars in the Bilateral Academic Exchange Program held in the Chinese University of Communication Beijing; Xiamen University; Huaqiao University and University of Education-College of Chinese Language and Culture (2016). She was awarded the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research Fellowship for 2018/2019, and the Endangered Materials Knowledge Programme (EMKP) Large Grant Award of the British Museum for a Documentation/Documentary Project for the period 2021-2024. She has executed research projects for International Labour Organization (ILO) and Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). Utoh-Ezeajugh has attended many academic conferences and published many plays and journal articles, and also edited books and Journals, and produced documentary films for the AHP with funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Third Chapter Project based in New York. She belongs to many professional Associations including the Society of Nigeria Theatre Artists (SONTA) where she served the Association in various capacities and earned the SONTA Life Time Achievement Award in 2013 and became Fellow of SONTA in 2018. Other professional bodies/associations where she belongs include International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC); Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA); National Association of Women Academics (NAWACS); Women Writers of Nigeria (WRITA); Pan African Circle of Artists (PACA); African Theatre Association (AFTA); International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC); International Theatre Institute (ITI); African Studies Association (ASA); Civil Society Forum on Migration and Development; The Review Committee for the National Migration Policy of 2015; and Technical Working Group (TWG) on Migration and Development. She has served Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka in the following capacities; - Director, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Centre for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities (2011- 2014); Head, Department of Theatre and Film Studies, (2014- 2017); Dean, Faculty of Arts, (2016- 2019); Director, Centre for Arts, Culture and Humanities, (2019-2021). She is currently the Director, Centre for Migration Studies (CMS-NAU) (2021-Date). Utoh-Ezeajugh delivered the Nnamdi Azikiwe University's 26th Inaugural Lecture in June 2015. She is a board member and non-executive director of University Press PLC.