Dream with
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Synthesising African and Western performing traditions and techniques to celebrate the meeting of different cultures.
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Inspired by stories,
driven by mission.

Mojisola Elufowoju is an award-winning director, CEO, Creative Director and founder of Utopia Theatre. A leading African Theatre company based in Sheffield. She was Staff Director at The National Theatre, working on Three Sisters by Inua Ellams. 

She synthesises African and Western performing traditions and techniques to celebrate the meeting of different cultures, delivering productions and projects which develop and promote writers, performers, and artists from the African diaspora.

She creates work that raise awareness and increase appreciation of African culture by commissioning new writing and presenting established classics within a strong African context, and in so doing, aim to dispel stereotypes and encourage authentic voices from the African diaspora. She began her directing career at York Theatre Royal.

She is recipient of a 2017 Opera Awards Foundation bursary, a founding member of Mosaic Opera Collective and currently a guest director at British American Drama Academy and London South Bank University.

Collaborative approach is my signature.

samples of my work.

Here’s What She Said To Me

Here’s What She Said To Me

The Pied Piper Of Chibok Opera

The Pied Piper Of Chibok Opera

Wake Me When It’s Time

Wake Me When It’s Time

The Duchess of Malfi (Iyalode of Eti)

The Duchess of Malfi (Iyalode of Eti)

The Shepherd’s Chameleon

The Shepherd’s Chameleon

This Is Our Chance

This Is Our Chance

Creating inspiring films.

Silkworm

The story of two women living in a Glasgow tower block, seeking asylum from the UK Home Office on the basis of their sexual orientation, and...

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Here’s What She Said To Me

A Sheffield Theatres and Utopia Theatre Co- production Written by Oladipo Agboluaje Conceived and directed by Mojisola Elufowoju   If I were like you, I’d have never found a man...

  • Designer

    Amanda Stoodley

  • Lighting Designer

    Andy Purves

  • Sound Designer

    Rob Hart

  • Movement Director

    Karin Fisher-Potisk

  • Casting Director

    Nadine Rennie CDG

  • Cast

    Kike Brimah as Aramide, Ayo-Dele Edwards as Agbeke, Estella Daniels as Omotola

  • Tags

    past theatre shows

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The Pied Piper Of Chibok Opera

A brand new opera which retells the real-life story of the Chibok girls through the classic tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.   On the night of...

  • Director

    Mojisola Elufowoju

  • Composer

    Juwon Ogungbe

  • Librettist

    Olusola Oyeleye

  • Dancer 1

    Harvey Rose

  • Dancer 2.

    Zenaida Shabba

  • Singers

    Callum Blackmore, Katie Walker, Liz Ball, Heather Watson`, Eleanor Watts, Callum Speed, Grace Watkins, Sheila Freeman, Beulah Byron, Leon Waksberg, Kanye Shazad, Terri Shaltiel, Maggie Caudwell, Jacqueline Kennedy.

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    past theatre shows

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Wake Me When It’s Time

Alastair Fauklkner. Location: York Theatre Royal Studio, York.   Date: Summer 2011.   After an opening where one is not quite sure who these people are, where they are or why the two...

  • Directed by

    Mojisola Elufowoju

  • Producer

    Matt Hardcastle

  • Cast

    Rob Pickavance, Jonathan Race, Andrina Carroll, Sarah Quintrell

  • Tags

    past theatre shows

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The Maids

Conceived from an idea by Mojisola Elufowoju.   Jean Genet’s notorious first play seizes elements of the thriller and subverts them with disturbing games of language, transgression, and...

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The Duchess of Malfi (Iyalode of Eti)

The Duchess of Malfi (Iyalode of Eti) by Debo Oluwatuminu   A unique West African transposition of one of the greatest dramas ever written, John Webster’s The Duchess...

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The Shepherd’s Chameleon

This is your chance to escape the drudgery of everyday austerity and embrace the madcap world of absurdist comedy. In this fast-paced physical production, the playwright is...

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This Is Our Chance

Set in the rural African community of Koloro. Princess Kudaro has fallen in love with Ndamu, prince of the neighbouring village of Udura and both have...

  • Directed by

    Mojisola Elufowoju

  • Written by

    James Ene Henshaw

  • Produced by

    James Henshaw

  • Cast

    Dr Edet Essien, Margaret Edet, Mercy Amah, Gabriel Nkanu, Willie Essien, Excellent Isangidoho, Onyinyechi Obesie

  • Tags

    past theatre shows

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