Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini
A woman with a colourful patterned headscarf wearing black rimmed glasses, cat earrings and a pink t-shirt.
Credit: BAFTA
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Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini

Writer

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Matilda is a bionic writer of Nigerian heritage from east London, and writes for stage, screen and audio. Their work as a playwright includes the award-winning Little Miss Burden and Sleepova, which premiered at the Bush Theatre in March 2023. Their short films include Head Over Wheels, produced by Open Sky Theatre and Wrapt Films, and MO <3 KYRA, part of Film4 and 104 Films’ 4Love series. Matilda’s feature script, Caring – co-written with Gabriel Bisset-Smith – was selected for the Brit List 2020. They have written episodes of Unprecedented (Headlong and Century Films for BBC4) and CripTales (BBC America and BBC4), and co-wrote an episode of Amazon Prime’s upcoming Wilderness, produced by Firebird Pictures. Matilda is currently in development of film and television projects with BBC Film, Home Team, Ardimages UK and Raw TV. They were selected as a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2020.

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Represented by Ikenna Obiekwe, Independent Talent Group

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