Ibukun-Oluwa Fasunhan

Ibukun Fasunhan is a producer, stage manager, playwright, producer, and researcher. As a national/international artist whose works have graced different theatres globally in London, United Arab Emirates, and South Africa, amongst others, his interest spans the area of musical theatre, site-specific theatre, and children’s theatre. He was selected as one of the five African theatre producers to participate in the “Pan-African Creative Exchange Producers Lab” in South Africa and the “Playwright Virtual Lab” between 6 Nigerian and UK emerging playwrights. Academically, he is interested in site-specific theatre, applied theatre, spectatorship, spatial dynamics, and decolonization. He has published peer-reviewed academic articles documenting site-specific theatre practice in Nigeria, including a co-authored book on Cultural and Creative Arts for students in Nigeria from Basic 7-9. Ibukun is currently a doctoral student in the Theatre Department at the Faculty of Media Art and Performance, University of Regina. His interdisciplinary research on site-specific theatre being supervised by Taiwo Afolabi, engages site-specific theatre practice in Lagos (Nigeria), and Saskatchewan (Canada). He is also a graduate research assistant at the Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre (C-SET).