Titilola Dawudu CV

Titilola Dawudu is a Nigerian-born British writer and editor and trustee for Theatre Centre. She is on the advisory board for Beyond Face and recently became a board member for CreativeMornings. She worked for GMTV before moving onto youth organisation, Headliners where she was an outreach journalist. She worked with Croydon-based youth charity, Reaching Higher, where she started an all-girls theatre platform called STAGES which sees girls create work by drawing influence from their own life experiences. After completing an MA in Dramatic Writing at Central Saint Martins and receiving a distinction, she became an associate with Tamasha theatre and wrote an audio installation as part of playwright, Ishy Din’s Taxi Tales. she co-created and edited Hear Me Now Audition Monologues for Actors of Colour with Tamasha, published by Oberon Books. She has worked with Soho Theatre and nitroBEAT. She was on the Emerging Producer’s Development Programme at Edinburgh Fringe in 2016 and was one of China Plates’ Enhanced Optimist in 2017. She is an associate Writer for Beyond Face Theatre company having written Where’s Abi? performed at Theatre Royal in Plymouth in 2017 and a new piece called I’m a Stargazer! as part of their ‘Alright Petal?’ body of work came out in September. She wrote Nafisah, a play about child marriage for Theatre Royal Arojah in Abuja, Nigeria. Her monologues have been performed at Soho theatre (Womb) 2016 and for SlaMinutes at the Arcola Theatre (One Rung) in 2018. She won The Student Guide to Playwriting Award for her play Down Hair in 2016 and her monologue Old Me/New Me was performed at the Bush theatre and is featured in the book, The Student Guide to Playwriting. I Can't Breathe about the death of New Yorker Eric Garner was selected for a staged reading also at the Bush Theatre. She created work with performer Maya Wiliams for nitroBEAT Pit Party inspired by the Barbican’s Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition in 2017. She wrote a play called XYZ for Theatre Peckham as a response piece to Malorie Blackman’s novel and play Noughts and Crosses in July 2019. Mentoring has been a strong thread throughout her career and she was on the University Women in the Arts programme founded by writer and researcher, Jennifer Tuckett and was on the Leaders of Tomorrow programme. This was a two-year training programme for future theatre leaders, delivered by tiata fahodzi, 20 Stories High, Freedom Studios and Talawa Theatre Company, supported by the Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme (RTYDS) and Independent Theatre Council (ITC). She worked at Ovalhouse theatre in south London as the Learning and Participation Manager and oversaw the six Young Associate Artists who had their first professional plays performed June 2019 for the First Bite season. She also oversaw the Ovalhouse Performance Company and wrote At Any One Time, Other Than This, You Would Be My Friend also for the First Bites season. She won Mentor of the Year at the Women of the Future awards in December 2018. Titilola is also a speaker and panellist and in March 2019, she spoke at Cambridge University and she is working with Jennifer Tuckett on a research survey for the university about women who study and work in the arts along with Sphinx theatre. In May she was a guest at Bare Lit Festival where she was invited to speak about Hear Me Now and her career. In February 2020, she used 16 monologues from her book Hear Me Now in a festival at Theatre503 called lovesexidentityambition with 6 directors, 6 hosts and 24 actors all of African Caribbean and South Asian heritage. The festival explored the need for more varied stories about Black and South Asian women. Her latest work is with Black Womxn in Theatre where the team are working with Eclipse Theatre, in partnership with the Bush Theatre on a redundancy care package for Black, Asian and ethnically diverse people who have been effected by the redundancies in the art sector. This launched in August 2020..

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