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Janice Okoh | |
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| Occupation | Playwright, screenwriter |
| Alma mater | |
| Notable works | Three Birds |
| Notable awards | |
Janice Okoh is a British playwright and screenwriter. [1] [2]
Okoh is from Lewisham, South-East London, the daughter of Nigerian parents Gladys and Hezekiah Okoh from Delta State. Okoh attended a local primary school and then boarded at St Michael's School for Girls in Limpsfield near Oxted. [3] She studied Law at Keele University. [4] Before becoming a playwright, she worked at law firms in the City for seven years and as a teacher. Okoh pursued a Master of Arts (MA) in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia (UEA). [5]
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. She adapted the play for the television series Just Act Normal , broadcast on BBC Three from 16 April 2025. [6]
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. [7] It was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. [8] [9] 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 . [10]
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