BIOGRAPHY

Dipo Baruwa-Etti

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Dipo is a playwright, screenwriter, and director. As a writer-director, his short films include the award- winning The Last Days (BFI Network/BBC/Tannahill Productions) starring Adjoa Anode and Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn.

As a playwright, his work includes The Clinic (Almeida Theatre), An unfinished man (The Yard Theatre), the Sun, the Moon and the Stars (Theatre Royal Stratford East), and Half-Empty Glasses (Paines Plough) all published by Faber. He has been shortlisted for Evening Standard, George Devine, and Alfred Fagon Awards.

As a poet, he has been published in The Good Journal, Ink Sweat & Tears, Amaryllis, and had his work showcased nationwide as part of End Hunger UK’s touring exhibition on food insecurity.