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 in development for writing projects with B-side Productions and BBC Film, this winter Justina joins Tim Crouch’s upcoming Globe production of The Tempest as associate director. As an actor Justina recently starred in the Tony and Olivier award-winning production of Girl From the North Country (Old Vic) and in the international debut of Neil Labute’s How To Fight Loneliness (Park Theatre). She will direct a performed reading of Purlie Victorious this autumn at the Leicester Curve. 

An Alumna of the Soho Writers Lab (2021-2022), BBC London Voices (2020) and Royal Court Writer’s Group (2019) as a poet she has been commissioned by the UNFPA and the Icelandic Government for bespoke poems around Harmful Traditional Practices and #MeToo, and has delivered a poetic TED talk on British History. In 2022 her directorial debut Til Death Do Us Part (Theatre 503) won Best New Production at the 2022 London Pub Theatre awards.

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. Through each discipline she seeks to contribute 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.