about
Malick Ceesay (a.k.a. Mahlick) is a LA-based multidimensional artist of Gambian-American heritage, canonizing his work to music, sound design, and playwriting.
His plays include Waiting in Vain, Bruised Silhouette, Sacrosanct, SUPERAMERICA, Bloodsoil, circa ’87, Dynamite and The Jazz Equation. In 2019, Waiting in Vain was workshopped and produced at Augsburg University with Ambiance Theatre Company (dir. Atlese Robinson). In 2021, his play The Jazz Equation was workshopped and produced in UCLA’s ONES Play Festival, (dir. June Carryl). He was a 2019–21 cohort member of Red Eye Theater’s New Works 4 Weeks Festival (NW4W) for his film projects: a mascu- poem. and MANSAYA. Other literary works have been featured in Black MN Voices, The Plugged App, MN Artists, and Sunspot Literary Journal. Malick has worked with other theatres as well, such as: Underdog Theatre, Capri Theatre (PCYC), Red Eye Theatre, Full Circle Theatre, The Playwrights’ Center, Lyric Arts, and UCLA.
As a sound designer, Malick has had the opportunity to work in several productions, including: Snow in Atlantis by Evan Peterson, Def Poetics facilitated by Sha Cage & E.G. Bailey, Still Harvey Still by Brianna Barrett (mentored under Leon Rothenberg), Antigone by Sophocles, adapted by Anne Carson, Tell Me I’m Gorgeous at the End of the World by Aaron Coleman, and FAIRVIEW by Jackie Sibbles Drury. Malick holds a BFA from Augsburg University as a Eddie Phillips Scholar and an MFA in Playwriting at UCLA as a Graduate Opportunities Fellow and a George Burns and Gracie Allen Scholar.