A London-based writer, actor and director, Justina Kehinde’s work examines the intersections of gender, ecology, myth and mental-health within a diasporic-African experience.

Currently starring in The Mountaintop, and joining Rebecca Frecknall’s upcoming production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof as associate director, Justina was the associate director on Jeremy Herrin’s West-End production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Wyndhams Theatre, 2024) starring Brian Cox (Succession) and Patricia Clarkson (Sharp Objects), Justina’s directorial debut Til Death Do Us Part (Theatre 503) won Best New Production at the 2022 London Pub Theatre awards. As an actor she recently portrayed Marianne in Connor McPherson’s Olivier and Tony Award winning Girl From The North Country (UK and Ireland 2022/23 inaugural tour) and was featured in the Netflix hit series SANDMAN. An Alumna of the Soho Writers Lab (2021-2022), BBC London Voices (2020) and Royal Court Writer’s Group (2019) she is currently in development for an original TV project and has worked with several production companies on thought-form short films. Winner of the 2012 Benjamin Zephaniah Poetry Prize, she has been commissioned by the UNFPA and the Icelandic Government for bespoke poems around Harmful Traditional Practices and #MeToo. 

A graduate of the University of Cambridge, her artistry is informed by the work of Black Feminists, post-colonial theorists and Augusto Boal’s Theatre of The Oppressed, and seeks to be a contribution to the role art plays in the work of social justice and liberation.

She is represented by Curtis Brown for acting and United Agents for writing and directing.