Tsegaye Gabremedhin (1936–2006) was an Ethiopian playwright and poet who wrote in Amharic and English.
He was director of the Haile Selassie I Theatre (now the Ethiopian National Theatre) from 1961 to 1971. He later founded the theatre department at Addis Ababa University.
Tsegaye wrote more than 30 plays, most of them in Amharic, and translated several plays by William Shakespeare and Molière. His Amharic plays deal primarily with contemporary Ethiopia, in particular the plight of youth in the cities and the need to respect traditional morality, as in Crown of Thorns (1959). Oda Oak Oracle (1965) is Tsegaye's best-known verse drama in English. Like his other English-language plays, it is based on Ethiopian history and deals with religious conflicts. Collision of Altars (1977) is an experimental play that incorporates pantomime, incantation, dance and the use of masks.
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