Janice Okoh

Janice Okoh is a British playwright.

Life

Janice Okoh is from Lewisham. Before becoming a playwright, she worked as a teacher. In 2011 she won the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting for her play Three Birds, which she entered under a pseudonym Ebenezer Foot.[1] 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.[2]

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.

References
  1. Janice Okoh on her Bruntwood prize winning drama, The Times, 17 November 2011.
  2. Ian Youngs, The writers breathing life into black British history, BBC News, 22 January 2020. Accessed 6 July 2020.
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