Justina Kehinde

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Film, TV & Theatre

Assistant: Jocelyn Waddell

Film, TV & Theatre

Justina Kehinde is a writer, director and award winning poet. Her directorial debut Til Death Do Us Part (Theatre 503) won Best New Production at the 2022 London Pub Theatre Awards and in 2023 she assisted Rebecca Frecknall in her 5 star production of Romeo and Juliet (Almeida Theatre). A member of the Young Vic Director’s programme, in 2017 she was one of eight selected onto Damsel Productions directorial development scheme where, under the mentorship of Paulette Randal (MBE) she co-wrote and directed her first original play, UMUADA, which debuted at the Bunker Theatre before headlining the King’s Head Theatre’s PlayMill Festival to 5 and 4 star reviews.

An alumna of the Soho Writer’s Lab (2021-2022), Royal Court Writer’s Group (2019) and BBC London Voices (2020), her debut radio play Red Tide was commissioned by the Southwark Playhouse (2020). She has also worked with several production companies on thought-form short films and is developing several T V projects. 

In 2021 she collaborated with the UNFPA on an original poem raising awareness around Harmful Traditional Practices, and in 2019 was commissioned to perform a poem to open Prof. Angela Davis’ keynote speech at the inaugural, international conference on #METOO in Reykjavik. Winner of the 2012 Benjamin Zephaniah Poetry Prize and a keynote speaker at the 2013 TEDx Youth Conferences, she is a graduate of the University of Cambridge where she directed the first all-black-all-female production on a Cambridge stage and the first African musical. She has professional proficiency in French. 

Theatre

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TILL DEATH DO US PART*

2022

Theatre 503

Director
Written by Safaa Benson-Effiom
Winner, Best New Production 2022 London Pub Theatre Awards

FOR THE CULTURE

2021

Tamasha Theatre Company

Director
Written by Safaa Benson-Effiom

SWEET TAMARIND

2021

Tamasha Theatre Company

Director
Written by Sabrina Richmond

RED TIDE

2020

Southwark Playhouse

(Radio Play) Writer

THE FLOWER, THE MOON AND I

2019

Theatre N16 and Wolab

Director
Written by Olu Adaeze

UMUADA

2018

King's Head Theatre

Writer & Director

THE RECORDS

2018

Theatre Royal Stratford East

Director
Written by Sidney Belony

UMUADA

2017

Bunker Theatre, London

Writer & Director
Co-Written with Yosola Olorunshola

Assisting Credits

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ROMEO & JULIET

2023

Almeida Theatre

Assistant Director
Dir. Rebecca Frecknall

THE SUN, THE MOON & THE STARS

2021

Theatre Royal, Stratford East

Assistant Director
Dir. Nadia Fall

MONKEY BARS

2019

Southwark Playhouse

Assistant Director
Dir. Toby Clarke

FRONTLINE

2017

The Place Theatre

Assistant Director
Dir. Sara Dos Santos

Short Films

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IN THE ABSENCE OF JUSTICE

2020

Burnt Lemon Production

Writer

PROTEST

2020

Owlinspace

Writer

Television

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UNTITLED

2020

Gaumont Productions

Dialogue Consultant