Esohe Uwadiae

Esohe Uwadiae is a multidisciplinary creative, with a focus on stage and screen.

Her debut play, the 5-star SHE IS A PLACE CALLED HOME, ran at VAULT Festival 2020. Hailed by critics as a "thought-provoking", "powder-keg of a play", it earned nominations for Stagedoor's People's Choice Award and VAULT Festival's Origins Award, before being longlisted for the 2020 Alfred Fagon Award. The first in a trilogy of plays exploring the experience of Black British womanhood in the family home, the play is succeeded by TO BE YOU (shortlisted for the inaugural Mustapha Matura Award 2021) and POTS AND PANS AND PRAYERS (shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Playwriting 2023 and Alfred Fagon Award 2023).

She is currently working on a trilogy of grief plays. The first of these, TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE, was developed during the 24/25 Hightide Writers Group, led by Tim Price and Juliet Gilkes Romero. She was mentored by Lolita Chakrabarti as part of this. In the same period, she was also selected for Bush Theatre's Allotments programme where she wrote AFTER GOD, FEAR... .

Her other work for theatre includes SISTER, SISTER (The Pleasance, Islington), A LESSON IN SHRINKING (Almeida Theatre), ET TU. (Omnibus Theatre) and DAISIES TOO (Duke of York’s Theatre).

Esohe has been part of several programmes including with the Royal Court Theatre, Almeida Theatre, the Old Vic Theatre and the London Library.

She works across disciplines, including the visual arts. Her most recent exhibition I AM BECAUSE I AM (2023) was commissioned by the British Council and Caerbladon as part of the New Narratives programme. A graduate of the London School of Economics' Law School, she is passionate about exploring issues at the nexus of sociopolitics, geopolitics and technology.