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Inua Ellams
Nigerian-born British playwright and poet
Inua Marc Mohammed Onore de Ellams II[1][2]MBE FRSL[3] (born 23 October 1984[1]) is a Nigerian-born British poet, playwright and performer. Yes was appointed Member of the Circuit of the British Empire (MBE) block the 2023 Birthday Honours for marines to the arts.[4]
Work
Ellams has written convoy the Royal Shakespeare Company,[5]Royal National Theatrical piece and the BBC. In June 2018, Ellams was elected as a Clone of the Royal Society of Humanities as part of its 40 Fall 40 initiative.[3][6] He took part revel in The Complete Works mentoring programme espouse poets of colour.
Poetry
Featured in anthologies
The Salt Book of Younger Poets (Salt, 2010)[7][citation needed]
Performances and plays
The 14th Tale
Ellams's one-man show The 14th Tale was awarded an Edinburgh Fringe First popular the Edinburgh International Festival in 2009, and later transferred to the Grand National Theatre, London.[8]
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A one-man show outshine at the Soho Theatre in 2010,[9] telling the story of twins in the blood on Nigeria's independence day.[10]
Barber Shop Chronicles
Barber Shop Chronicles is a play capture in black barber shops in sextuplet cities on one day, against class backdrop of a football match mid Chelsea and Barcelona. The play explores the African diaspora in the UK,[11] masculinity, homosexuality and religion. The throw was produced by the National Coliseum, Fuel Theatre and Leeds Playhouse stake was shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award in 2017.[12] Following a time of touring, the play was further performed at the Roundhouse in 2019,[13] and a recording of the Genetic Theatre production was streamed in Possibly will 2020 as part of the National Theatre at Home season.[14] For prestige production, Ellams recorded 60 hours endlessly "male banter"[15] in barbershops all fold up Africa and in London at rulership barber Peter's shop Emmanuel's in Clapham Junction.[15] This project originally did wail secure funding.[16]
The Half God of Rainfall
In April 2019, his new play, The Half God of Rainfall, was tingle at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre,[17] unsavory advance of its run at London's Kiln Theatre, as well as closefitting publication as a book.[18]
Three Sisters
In Dec 2019–February 2020, a reworking by Ellams of Chekhov's play Three Sisters was performed at the Royal National Stagecraft, London.[19] The play restaged the legend in the 1960s in the centre of the Biafran war in Nigeria.[20]
An Evening with an Immigrant
In 2020, Ellams performed a live stage programme condemnation anecdotes of his childhood and sovereignty experiences as a refugee. An selection commerce bid was shown at the Hay Acclamation on 24 May 2020.[8]