Ola is a director and dramaturg. She is an Associate Director at the Royal Court, where her work includes: Poet in da Corner (& UK tour), White Sky (& RWCMD/Gate). Ola has also worked as a director at the Donmar Warehouse, Young Vic, National, Lyric Hammersmith, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, St. Ann’s Warehouse (NYC) and Lunt-Fontanne (Broadway). In 2015 Ola became a BBC Performing Arts Fellow. She is an Artistic Associate at the Lyric, Hammersmith and Theatre Royal, Stratford East. Ola was the recipient of the Rose Bruford Directing Bursary, Boris Karloff Bursary, H100 Theatre & Performance Award and the Genesis Future Director Award.