Jude Idada

Jude Idada is a winner of the Nigeria Prize for Literature, an AMAA best screenplay award, an AFRIFF Globe best screenplay award, and an ANA prize for Drama. He was a Goethe Institut Afrika Projekt finalist for his stage adaptation of Franz Kafta’s “The Village School Master”.  He was also a long-listed ans short-listed nominee of the Nigeria Prize for Literature for his plays Sankara and Oduduwa-King of Edos. Amongst many, Jude was selected as one of the screenwriters for the Toronto International Film Festival’s ‘ADAPT THIS!’ project and the Afrinolly/Ford Foundation ‘Cinema4Change’ projects. He was also a finalist in the screenwriting competition of the New Directions Filmmakers of the future project by MNET, an inaugural participant in the Relativity Media/AFRIFF Filmmaking project, in addition to being selected as one of the playwrights for the British Council’s Lagos Theatre Festival and the Lagos Fringe Festival. He has written and published a collection of short stories “A Box of Chocolates”, an anthology of poetry “Exotica Celestica”, three stage plays “Oduduwa-King of the Edos”, “Sankara” and “L’Otor- The Devils Pilgrimage, the first book in a trilogy of novels; “By My Own Hands”, and two children’s books “Didi Kanu and the Singing Dwarfs of the North”, and “Boom Boom”. Alongside writing, he is a critically acclaimed and multiple award-winning directors on both stage and screen. He divides his time between Toronto, Canada and Lagos, Nigeria.