Career
He started professional acting in 2007 with Strange News, a project by Norwegian music composer Rolf Wallin and Belgian Director Josse dePauw about child soldiers in Africa. Arthur plays the former child soldier in Rolf Wallin and Josse De Pauw"s Strange News, a large multimedia work including symphony orchestra, video and surround sound. Luckily not a former child soldier himself, however, the cruel conflict in neighbouring DR Congo, and Uganda"s own history is all too realium
Shortly after he left for Oslo, where Josse De Pauw created the role especially for him.
He has since the premiere with Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra in 2007 performed Strange News in a number of cities, among them Porto and Chicago, Toronto, Brussels, Amsterdam, Stavanger, Birmingham, London among others He studied Drama at the Performing Arts and Film Department Makerere University where he was taught by Doctor Patrick Mangeni, Philip Luswata, Branco Lawrence Sekalega,Doctor Mercy Mirembe Ntangare, Doctor Nanyonga Tamusuza among others
His research was about the "General Public"s perception of Theatre Artistes" with Bakayimbira Drama actors as his case study. In his final year, he was selected the best play director with his directing project of Nikolai Gogol"s "Marriage".
He later on showed the same play at Mbarara University of Science & Technology and Maryhill High School Mbarara.
He is an arts entrepreneur who invests in creation & development of stage, radio and television concepts. He continues to explore his abilities as a director, actor and performer as a free lance theatre artiste while also singing with "The Freemen Band" under the stage name Arthur Okman.
