Bola Agbaje

Bola Agbaje FRSL is an award-winning playwright of Nigerian origin.[1]

Career

Agjabe's first play Gone Too Far! was produced at the Royal Court Theatre in London, where it won the 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre.[2][3] It was later revived for very brief runs at the Albany Theatre and Hackney Empire.[4]

Agjabe also wrote the play The Burial.[5]

In 2018, Agbaje was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature as part of new wave of admissions to the Society designed 'to address historical biases'.[6]

Personal life

Agbaje has said that she believes in God, but does not follow Christianity or Islam.[7] Her brother served time in prison.[8]

References

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20080501163405/http://www.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=207&story=E8821209377116
  2. ↑ https://royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/gone-too-far-on-tour-2/
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20080501163405/http://www.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=207&story=E8821209377116
  4. ↑ https://royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/gone-too-far-on-tour-2/
  5. ↑ https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/the-burial-2
  6. ↑ Flood, Alison (2018-06-28). "Royal Society of Literature admits 40 new fellows to address historical biases". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-07-03.
  7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20080501163405/http://www.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=207&story=E8821209377116
  8. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20080501163405/http://www.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=207&story=E8821209377116
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