Aduba, 34, has traveled a long path as an artist. Her family emigrated from Nigeria to the small Boston suburb of Medfield, Massachusetts, where she was born; her name, Uzoamaka, means “the road is good.” She moved to Brooklyn soon after graduating from Boston University, where she trained in opera and classical theater, and she’s lived here for eleven years, telling me, charmingly, “I love a Fort Greene situation.”
On the day we meet, Aduba was celebrating an anniversary of sorts. Four years ago to the day was the Broadway opening of the 2011 Godspell revival, in which she sang a soulful lead on a version of “By Your Side” that inspired (and still inspires, via the original soundtrack) goosebumps and shivers. Four years is a blip in someone’s life; it’s high school. But such a small time in the span of a life can often augur a period of growth and change. For Aduba these last four years have felt “like an incredible transition, into a new space. It’s one that I’m acquainting myself with as best as one can without having any real sense of what it is at the other side.”
Uzo Aduba for Brooklyn Magazine.
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