Biyi Bandele

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Half of a Yellow Sun

Writer & Director

Film

Director & Producer 

Fela

Feature-length documentary

BBC
Plimsoll Productions and Mama Put

Writer & Director 

The King's Horseman

Feature 

Ebony Life
The Man Died
Feature

Adaptation of the Wole Soyinka's prison memoirs

BFI
In Development
Fifty
Feature

In Lagos, Nigeria, four successful women on the verge of 50 take stock of their lives and loves over the course of one week.

Ebonylife Films
Half of a Yellow Sun
Feature
Starring
  • Thandie Newton
  • Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • John Boyega
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    Adaptation of the novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie



    Slate Films
    The Kiss
    Short

    Producer 

    Nigerian Prince
    Feature
    In postproduction

    TV

    Director & Co-writer 

    Shuga

    Co-writer/Director on seasons 3 & 4 

    MTV drama that follows the lives of a group of young people in Nairobi, Kenya

     

    Writer 

    Bad Boy Blues
    BBC for BBC2
    Not Even God Is Wise Enough
    Director Danny Boyle
    BBC for BBC2

    Theatre

    Writer 

    Burma Boy

    New Commission 
    Birmingham Repertory Theatre
    Senora Carrar’s Rifles
    Young Vic Theatre
    Happy Birthday, Mister Deka D
    Lyric Hammersmith
    Me and the Boys
    Finborough Theatre
    Death Catches The Hunter
    Two Horsemen
    Gate Theatre (transferred to Bush Theatre)
    Resurrections
    Talawa Theatre Company, Cochrane Theatre, 1994
    In The Grove
    Royal Court Theatre (At the Tabernacle)
    Marching For Fausa
    Royal Court Theatre
    Rain
    Yaa Asantewaa

    Writer & Director 

    Brixton Stories
    Tricycle Theatre, 2001/Lyric Hammersmith, 2006
    Yerma
    Edinburgh Festival, 2001
    Oroonoko
    Royal Shakespeare Company
    Thieves Like Us
    Southwark Playhouse
    Things Fall Apart
    Ambassadors Theatre

    Radio

    Writer 

    Oroonoko

    Broadcaster BBC Radio 3
    City of Spades

    Broadcaster BBC Radio 4
    Things Fall Apart

    Broadcaster BBC Radio 3
    Death Catches The Hunter

    Broadcaster BBC Radio 4
    The Female God

    Broadcaster BBC World Service