Mojisola Adebayo

Actor, writer, director, producer, workshop leader and teacher/researcher. Mojisola Adebayo is a British born Nigerian/Danish performer, writer, director and teacher. She has a BA Drama and an MA Physical Theatre and has undertaken extensive training with Augusto Boal, Black Mime Theatre and others. All of Mojisola’s work is concerned with power, identity and change. Her creative experiences have included writing and directing Palestinian actors in the West Bank; teaching theatre for social change to community workers in Cape Town (CAP); and constructing plays with slum dweller arts‐activists in Ahmedabad. Mojisola is currently an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company, a dramaturg with Pegasus Theatre Company, and an Associate Artist at Pan Centre for Intercultural Arts with whom she is working on a new book on Theatre for Development. Mojisola teaches at Goldsmith's college on the MA in Applied Drama: Theatre in Educational, Community and Social Contexts and contributes to Performance Theory/Practice on the undergraduate programme. She has an extensive professional portfolio which directly feeds her teaching and research. She visited South Africa with her one-woman play Moj of the Antarctic, which toured extensively across Southern Africa with the British Council in 2008.