Janice Okoh
OccupationPlaywright, screenwriter
NationalityBritish
Notable worksThree Birds
Notable awards

Janice Okoh is a British playwright and screenwriter.[1][2]

Early life

Okoh is from Lewisham. Before becoming a playwright, she worked as a teacher.

Career

Her first play, Egusi Soup was produced in 2012 by Menagerie Theatre/Soho Theatre. In 2011 Okoh won the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting for her play Three Birds (which would be produced in 2013), which she entered under a pseudonym Ebenezer Foot.[3] The play was also short-listed for the Verity Bargate Award and the Alfred Fagon Award.

Okoh's play The Gift (2020) tells the story of the Egbado princess Sarah Bonetta who was given to Queen Victoria as a gift, and raised as her god-daughter. The play opened at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry in January 2020 before moving on to the Theatre Royal Stratford East.[4] It was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.[5][6] She has also written for radio, including an adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses.

Okoh has also written for television, contributing episodes of Doctors, Hetty Feather and On the Edge . She joined the writing team for series 2 of ITV's Sanditon.[7]

Works

Stage plays

  • Top Brass. Theatre 503, 2010.
  • Egusi Soup. Nick Hern, 2012.
  • Three Birds, 2013.
  • The Gift, 2020.

Radio plays

  • Carnival. Aired on BBC Radio R, 2010.
  • Reunion. Aired on BBC Radio 4 Extra, 2011.
  • Noughts & Cross. Aired on BBC Radio 4, 2014.
  • Silk: The Clerks Room. Aired on BBC Radio 4, 2014.
  • The Awakening. Aired on BBC Radio 4, 2014.
  • The Heart of a Woman. Aired on BBC Radio 4, 2015.
  • Red Earth, Red Sky. Aired on BBC Radio 4. 2019.
  • Half of a Yellow Sun. Aired on BBC Radio 4, 2020.
  • Cane. Aired on BBC Radio 4, 2020.

References

  1. ↑ "Janice Okoh". Bafta.org. 27 June 2018. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  2. ↑ "Janice Okoh". Independenttalent.com. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  3. ↑ Janice Okoh on her Bruntwood prize winning drama, The Times, 17 November 2011.
  4. ↑ Ian Youngs, The writers breathing life into black British history, BBC News, 22 January 2020. Accessed 6 July 2020.
  5. ↑ "Janice Okoh | The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize". Blackburnprize.org. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  6. ↑ Rosky, Nicole. "BWW Exclusive: Meet the 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalists- Janice Okoh". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  7. ↑ "First look images for second series of Sanditon". Itv.com. Retrieved 1 March 2022.


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