When Inua Ellams introduced his one-man show Search Party in New York City last January, he informed the audience that its success depended on them. “If it is brilliant it is because of your word ...

EXCLUSIVE: Hanna producer Working Title TV is adapting Inua Ellams’ play Black T-Shirt Collection into a TV series – marking the first television project for the rising playwright and poet. The London ...

The poet, playwright and cultural impresario on supporting his family through poetry, his love for comic books and why ‘home’ is really his laptop, Meredith The first preview of Barber Shop Chronicles ...

The Nigerian-born, Ireland-educated, British-based performer offers a funny and unsettling show at the Perth International festival Inua Ellams could be described as a poet, a performer, a graphic ...

Award-winning poet and playwright Inua Ellams (Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall) brings his audience-led poetry event to the Donmar Warehouse. Pick a word, any word. Prompted by ...

Masculinity. Vulnerability. Belonging. These are some of the themes London-based poet, playwright, graphic artist and performer Inua Ellams explores in his cross-cultural, cross-continental creative ...

What is the process of writing an episode of Doctor Who? Is it different from what you've done before? The turnover time is faster. A play takes me five or six years to write, but we had to do this in ...

Poetry and the spoken word are the ‘cheapest way to be free’ according to Inua Ellams – and the medium is in good health. Reaching out: Inua Ellams At east London arts venue Rich Mix, a young crowd ...

Poet, playwright and performer Inua Ellams is touring An Evening With an Immigrant while working on Barber Shop Chronicles, his third show for the National Theatre. He tells Catherine Love about the ...

Buckle up for “Open Mic Night” and “Search Party” at Under the Radar and two wildly adventurous works at the Exponential Festival. By Laura Collins-Hughes and Elisabeth Vincentelli No longer at the ...

Inua Ellams is glad to be home. His play, Barber Shop Chronicles, has toured the world but he still gets the biggest thrill from seeing it in the capital. “The play thrives in a cosmopolitan city and ...