Ife Olujobi

IFE OLUJOBI is a Brooklyn-based Nigerian American playwright, filmmaker, and editor from Columbia, Maryland. She is a member of Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and was a member of Play Group at Ars Nova, a New Voices Fellow at The Lark, an alumnus of the 2018-19 Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater and the 2020 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, an inaugural Project Number One artist-in-residence at Soho Rep, the recipient of a 2020 Sloan Foundation commission from Manhattan Theatre Club, a 2021 Steinberg Playwright Award, a 2025 Helen Merrill Award for playwriting, and was a 2022-24 Creatives Rebuild New York Artist-in-residence at the Public Theater. Their play Jordans won a special commendation from the 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and a 2025 Obie Award. They are the recipient of an inaugural Advocacy Award from the Dramatists Guild for their work organizing in service of labor justice for playwrights.