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Mojisola Kareem 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.
Anna Hibiscus’ Song Production and Tour
A Utopia Theatre and Sheffield Theatres Production. “Today we offer you a story of happiness. Of self-discovery. Of song. And of dance!” This…
Coleridge-Taylor of Freetown
A Concert in a Play. Written and performed by Tayo Aluko January 1999. George Coleridge-Taylor, retired Sierra Leonean diplomat, finds himself trapped in…
Death and the King’s Horseman
A Utopia Theatre and Sheffield Theatres Production. Life is honour. It ends when honour ends Set in Nigeria in the late 1940’s and…
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…
Here’s What She Said To Me
A Sheffield Theatres and Utopia Theatre Co- production Written by Oladipo Agboluaje Conceived and directed by Mojisola Kareem If I were like you,…
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…
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…
The Maids
Conceived from an idea by Mojisola Kareem. Jean Genet’s notorious first play seizes elements of the thriller and subverts them with disturbing games…