BOLA AGBAJE

FOR THE ROYAL COURT: Gone Too Far!, Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word (Latitude).
OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES: Detaining Justice (Tricycle);Anything You Can Do (as part of
Everything Must Go at Soho); In Time (Tiata Fahodzi with Eastern Angles); Good Neighbours
(Talawa Unzipped at the Young Vic); Legend Of Moremi (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Reap What
You Sow (Young Vic); Rivers Run Deep (Hampstead).
AWARDS INCLUDE: 2008 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliated Theatre
(Gone Too Far!).
Bola was a member of the Royal Court’s Critical Mass Programme, and her first play, Gone Too Far!,
premiered at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court in 2007 and then transferred to the
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs in 2008. She is Pearson Playwright in Residence for Paines Plough, is
under commission for Tiata Fahodzi and is adapting Gone Too Far! into a full-length screenplay for
the UK Film Council and Poisson Rouge Pictures.