Barber Shop Chronicles

About Inua Ellams

Inua Ellams was born in Nigeria and is an internationally touring poet playwright performer graphic artist and designer. He is an ambassador for the Ministry of Stories and has published four books of poetry: Candy Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales The Wire-Headed Heathen and #Afterhours. His first play The 14th Tale was awarded a Fringe First at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival and his fourth play Barber Shop Chronicles sold out its run at the National Theatre. He is currently touring An Evening With An Immigrant and working on The Half God of Rainfall a new play in verse. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.Oladipo 'Dipo' Agboluaje is a British-Nigerian playwright and academic born in Hackney and educated in Britain and Nigeria. He studied Theatre Arts at the University of Benin Nigeria and later wrote a doctoral thesis at the Open University UK on West and South African drama. He won the Alfred Fagon prize for playwriting for his play Iya-lle and is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund working in partnership with the University of East London UK.