Biography
After an eight year break from acting and working in the U.S. public and private sectors, Omar found his way back to working in the entertainment industry by being selected 1 of 18 candidates out of a pool of 200,000 candidates for pilot of The Apprentice Africa based in Lagos, Nigeria. Personally, this was the fire Omar needed to reignite his passion for acting. Omar subsequently went on to perform in a half dozen stage plays regionally and off Broadway in New York City. Moreover, he completed the Negro Ensemble Company’s Intensive acting training program, joining a prestigious alumnus including Denzel Washington, Adolph Ceasar, Samuel Jackson, Arthur French, Douglas Ward, Barbara Montgomery, Phylicia Allen-Ayers Rashad, Roxie Roker, Ester Rolle, Ester Bailey, and many others. To add to his theatre repertoire Omar performed at the 2009 National Black Theatre festival and received excellent reviews. Omar is a former student of the Interlochen Performing School of Arts in Interlochen, Michigan. Since then, he has received a variety of acting training in Improv from the famed LA based Groundlings, stage combat, monologue readings, voice-over, and on-camera classes in Los Angeles, New York City and the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Omar continues working as a full-time actor based in the Washington metropolitan area. He has an extensive resume with acting roles across the board in film, television, and voice-overs. Mr. Bah has a total of 10 years of acting experience and has extensive knowledge of television production through his experiences working on LA based television productions, The Price Is Right, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, Dennis Miller Live, and The Bold and the Beautiful. Some other information about Omar: Originally he hails from the West African country of Guinea. His forte lies in comedy which also makes for a good dramatic actor. To kick off 2011, and apart from his professional acting work, Omar decided to dedicate his acting talents to teaching drama to those persons who have fallen on rough times. As Omar states, “Through the art of acting, I could bring to surface issues that laid buried deep within myself. Acting served as a great release (an outlet) of various life hardships and personal frustrations. I became truly free once I opened up and really began to know myself”. Omar founded Finding Your Voice, a drama program with the Volunteers of America, Residential Program Center (RPC), one of the largest and most comprehensive providers of homeless services in Northern Virginia The program is designed to promote the client’s creativity, language skills, and critical thinking skills while addressing the client’s current and/or past life challenges/ issues through personal story-telling and role playing. In a nutshell, the program’s objective is to bring healing through the art of acting and personal story telling. Aside from his acting class at RPC, Omar serves as a RPC board member and is highly active in the promotion of RPC’s mission to be the premier provider of an array of human services that encourage self-reliance, dignity, and hope. MISCELLANEOUS Languages: English, French, and conversational Spanish |
As a professional child actor, Omar has worked on the sets of several projects in film and television, including Father and Son -a PBS Production in which he played a street bully, and a number of commercials for the mid Atlantic region.