Rex Obano

Rex Obano is a playwright and screenwriter. He was born in London and educated at the University of North London, where he studied Philosophy. After he graduated, he spent a year in the USA and studied Playwriting at City College in New York.

Rex was part of the Script Factory Writers Passage Group in 2005 and Talawa Theatre's Writers Group in 2006. 

Rex trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, where he was awarded the Laurence Olivier Bursary. In a wide-ranging career on stage, Rex has appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Theatre Royal, York, Theatre Clwyd and the National Theatre, where he appeared in Rufus Norris' production of Death and the King's Horseman.