Inua Ellams

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Inua Ellams
Born Inua Marc Mohammed Onore de Ellams II
(1984-10-23) 23 October 1984 (age 40)
Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria
Citizenship Nigeria
Education Firhouse Community College, Dublin, Ireland
Occupation Poet, playwright
Known for Barber Shop Chronicles

Inua M. M. Ellams[1][2] FRSL [3] (born 23 October 1984)[1] is a UK-based poet, playwright and performer.

Work

Ellams has written for the Royal Shakespeare Company,[4] Royal National Theatre and the BBC. In June 2018, Ellams was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature as part of its 40 Under 40 initiative.[3][5]


Poetry

Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales (flipped eye, 2005)

Candy Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars (flipped eye, 2011)

The Wire-Headed Heathen (Akashic Books, 2016)

Featured in anthologies

The Salt Book of Younger Poets (Salt, 2011)[6][citation needed]

The Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry (Valley Press, 2019)[citation needed]

Ten: The New Wave (Bloodaxe, 2014)[6][citation needed]

Performances and plays

The 14th Tale

Ellams's one-man show The 14th Tale was awarded an Edinburgh Fringe First at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2009 and later transferred to the Royal National Theatre, London.[7]

Untitled

A one-man show staged at the Soho Theatre in 2010,[8] telling the story of twins born on Nigeria's independence day.[9]

Barber Shop Chronicles

Barber Shop Chronicles is a play set in black barber shops in six cities on one day, against the backdrop of a football match between Chelsea and Barcelona. The play explores the African diaspora in the UK,[10] masculinity, homosexuality and religion. The play was produced by the National Theatre, Fuel Theatre and Leeds Playhouse and was shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award in 2017.[11] Following a period of touring, the play was also performed at the Roundhouse in 2019,[12] and a recording of the National Theatre production was streamed in May 2020 as part of the National Theatre at Home season.[13] For the production, Ellams recorded 60 hours of "male banter"[14] in barbershops all over Africa and in London at his barber Peter's shop Emmanuel's in Clapham Junction.[14] This project originally did not secure funding.[15]

The Half God of Rainfall

In April 2019 his new play, The Half God of Rainfall, was presented at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre,[16] in advance of its run at London's Kiln Theatre, as well as its publication as a book.[17]

Three Sisters

In December 2019–February 2020 Ellams's reworking of Chekhov's play Three Sisters was performed at the Royal National Theatre, London.[18] The play restaged the story in the 1960s in the midst of the Biafran war in Nigeria.[19]

An Evening with an Immigrant

In 2020 Ellams hperformed a live stage programme with anecdotes of his childhood and his experiences as a refugee. An excerpt was shown at the Hay Festival on 24 May 2020.[7]

Awards

References

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