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Pemon Rami
Meet the man
who has worked with
Cab Calloway, Chaka Khan,
Angela Bassett, John Belushi,
Aretha Franklin,
James Earl Jones,
Sammy Davis Jr., and more
Pemon Rami is an international film producer, theatre director, arts administrator, historian, lecturer, and consultant who wields one of the most impressive film pedigrees in Chicago and beyond.
Pemon Rami is an author, international film producer and director, member of the Board of the Illinois Arts Council, a member of the Luminary Board of the.
The features and TV programs that have relied on Rami’s casting direction expertise include Blues Brothers, Mahogany, Cooley High, The Spook Who Sat By The Door, Welcome To Success (the Marva Collins Story), and One In A Million.
Rami began his career in 1968 as Associate Director of the South Side Center for the Performing Arts. In 1971, he became director of the Kuumba Workshop, and from 1973 to 1979, he was Artistic / Managing Director of the Lamont Zeno Theatre.
In 1987, Rami co-founded Mixed Media Productions, a company that produced independent theat