Chinonyerem Odimba
Chinonyerem Odimba is a playwright and screenwriter.
Her plays include: Black Love (Paines Plough, 2021); Unknown Rivers (Hampstead Theatre, 2019); Princess and the Hustler (Eclipse Theatre Company, Bristol Old Vic and Hull Truck Theatre co-production, 2019); Amongst the Reeds (Clean Break, Edinburgh Fringe and Yard Theatre, London, 2016); A Blues for Nia (Eclipse Theatre/BBC); His name is Ishmael (Bristol Old Vic, 2013); The Birdwoman of Lewisham (Arcola, 2015) and Joanne (Clean Break, Soho Theatre, 2015). She is a winner of the Channel 4 Playwrights' Scheme 2016 (formerly the Pearson Playwrights' Scheme).
Her screenplay Scotch Bonnet was filmed by the BBC for The Break, a series of short films.
Two friends scratch out a living on the margins of society in a play commissioned by acclaimed theatre company Clean...
Five of the most exciting voices in theatre explore the pressures on our public services as one young woman buckles u...
A play about a cheeky 10-year-old with a plan to win the Weston-super-Mare Beauty Contest, against the backdrop of Bl...
A poignant and life-affirming play about the extraordinary powers of female friendship.
Drawing inspiration from Ovid, fifteen leading female and non-binary British playwrights dramatise the lives of fifte...
An explosion of form-busting storytelling, combining real-life stories, imagined worlds, and new songs inspired by an...