13 Facts About Ade Solanke

Adeola Solanke FRSA, commonly known as Ade Solanke, is a British playwright and screenwriter.

Ade Solanke is best known for her debut stage play, Pandora's Box, which was produced at the Arcola Theatre in 2012, and was nominated as Best New Play in the Off West End Theatre Awards.

Ade Solanke's other writing credits include the award-winning BBC Radio drama series Westway and the Nigerian feature film Dazzling Mirage.

Ade Solanke earned an MFA in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, where she was a Fulbright Scholar and Phi Beta Kappa international scholar.

Ade Solanke has a postgraduate diploma in creative writing from Goldsmiths, University of London, and an honours degree in English literature from the University of Sheffield.

Ade Solanke worked as a story analyst for several Hollywood companies, including Sundance, New Line and Disney.

Ade Solanke's first screenplay, Femi's Thirtieth, was a semi-finalist in the annual Nicholl screenwriting contest in Los Angeles.

Ade Solanke has taught at several universities, among them Goldsmiths, University of London, and Pan-African University, Lagos, Nigeria, as well as at such institutions as London's City Lit and in Zimbabwe at the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa.

Ade Solanke subsequently wrote the screenplay for Dazzling Mirage, adapted from the novel of the same name by Olayinka Abimbola Egbokhare, produced and directed by Tunde Kelani.

In 2015, Solanke made her directorial debut with her second play, East End Boys, West End Girls, in a London tour that began at the Arcola Theatre before playing in venues including CLF Arts Cafe in Peckham, the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea, and the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham.

Ade Solanke is developing a project and play about Phillis Wheatley entitled Phillis in London, which was showcased at the Greenwich Book Festival in 2018.

Ade Solanke is a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa edited by Margaret Busby.

In 1989, Ade Solanke was named London's Top Youth Entrepreneur for her writing and media business, Tama Communications.