Bola Agbaje

Bola Agbaje (born 1981) is a British playwright of Nigerian descent.

Biography Agbaje was born at St Thomas' Hospital in the Waterloo area of London, England, to Nigerian parents, her father a civil servant and her mother a cook, and grew up in on the North Peckham Estate. She briefly lived in Nigeria between the ages of six and eight. After beginning her studies at Identity Drama School, Agbaje withdrew and instead joined the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers Programme. Works such as Gone Too Far! and Belong examine these elements alongside the tensions and conflicts between racial and ethnic identities.

Agbaje's first play, Gone Too Far!, was produced at the Royal Court Theatre in London, where it won the 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre.

In 2018, Agbaje was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL), one of 40 under the age of 40 elected in an RSL initiative designed "to address historical biases".