Janice Okoh

Janice Okoh won the Bruntwood Playwrighting Competition in 2011 with her play Three Birds, which was staged at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 2013, before transferring to the Bush Theatre, London. The play was shortlisted for he Verity Bargate Award and the Alfred Fagon Award.

Her other plays include The Gift (Theatre Royal, Stratford East, 2020) and Egusi Soup (Menagerie Theatre Company & Eastern Angles, 2009).

She won the Emerging Talent: Fiction award at the 2026 BAFTA Television Craft Awards for her BBC television drama series Just Act Normal, based on her play Three Birds.