Chinonyerem Odimba

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Chinonyerem Odimba is a British playwright, director and Artistic Director. She was born in Umuahia, Nigeria in 1974, and moved to London aged seven.[1]

Odimba is best known for her play Wild is De Wind (long-listed for the Bruntwood Award in 2015[2]) and musical Black Love which toured the UK in 2021 and transferred to Kiln Theatre in 2022.[3] She is artistic director of the theatre company tiata fahodzi. For International Women's Day 2022, she featured on the Evening Standard list of "London women changing the world".[4] In 2026, she appeared on The Stage 100 list.[5]

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