I’m a New York-based Igbo playwright, screenwriter, performer, and lecturer from London. My lens centres the queer Black feminine grappling with interiority and against erasure.

commissions: tiata fahodzi; MTC Sloan awards: 2022 Bruntwood Prize longlist; 2021 Papatango Playwriting Prize; 2021 Neukom Institute Literary Award (2nd); 2021 Playwrights Realm 2021 International Theatermakers Award; 2021 Women’s Prize shortlist; 2020 KCACTF Rosa Parks Playwriting Award (1st); 2020 KCACTF Lorraine Hansberry Award (2nd); 2018 VAULT Festival New Writers Award

work produced by/staged at: Soho Repertory Theater, USA; Bristol Old Vic, UK; The Lowry, UK; Derby Theatre, UK; The Belgrade Theatre, UK; Brown University, USA; Bushwick Starr, USA; VoxFest, USA; Southwark Playhouse, UK; Poleroid Theatre, UK; Courting Drama, UK; Tamasha Theatre Company, UK; VAULT Festival, UK; WOW Cafe Theatre

fellowships/residencies: 2023 MacDowell Fellow; 2023 Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residence; 2022/23 Dramatist Guild Fellow finalist; 2021 Playwriting Fellow at Sewanee Writers’ Conference; 2020/21 Lucille Lortel Fellowship at Brown University

writers’ groups: 2023/24 Ars Nova Play Group; 2023 Royal Court/SISTER PICTURES Writers Group; 2022/23 Soho Repertory Theater Writer/Director Lab; 2018/19 Soho Theatre Alumni Group; 2018 VAULT New Writers Programme; 2017/18 Soho Writers’ Lab

audio tour: Bush Theatre, Everyman Theatre Liverpool, Theatr Clwyd, Leeds Playhouse, Laurels Whitley Bay, Chichester Festival Theatre, Stephen Joseph Theatre, an Tobar & Mull Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Bristol Old Vic, Southwark Playhouse, Oldham Coliseum, Trinity Theatre Tunbridge Wells, Lyric Theatre Belfast. BA: Dartmouth College MFA: Brown University.

Representation: Alex Rusher alexrusher@independenttalent.com