Titilola Dawudu is a writer and dramaturg. She currently works for Bush Theatre heading up the literary department and is their Associate Dramaturg. Titilola is part of the Black Womxn in Theatre team in the UK behind the iconic #WeAreVisible photoshoot of over 250 Black women at the Globe Theatre in July 2019. During the pandemic, Black Womxn in Theatre partnered with Eclipse Theatre and the Bush in creating #AllOfUs campaign and #HearToStay a 4-week redundancy recovery care programme. This saw 50 Black, Asian and ethnically diverse people who were made redundant or were at risk of, come together and receive financial, mentoring and job support. Titilola co-created and edited Hear Me Now Audition Monologues for Actors of Colour with Tamasha, published by Oberon Books. Hear Me Now Vol.2 was published in August 2022 by Methuen Drama.
Titilola is the interim chair for Beyond Face, a theatre in the southwest of England and she is also a trustee for National Student Drama Festival and Theatre Centre. Titilola is a published writer and has also written for Theatre Royal Arojah in Abuja, Nigeria, Theatre Peckham, Ovalhouse and Soho Theatre. She is a published writer and most recently her essay Let the Pendulum Swing was featured in The Working Class Anthology Series edited by Sophia Amina.
