Olusola Oyeleye is a writer, director, performer and storyteller.  She has worked extensively in education, both as a writer-in-residence and with a variety of theatre-in-education projects.  As well as visits and residencies in schools across the country, she has worked with the South Bank Education Department, the Tate Gallery, the Royal Academy of Art and the English National Opera on their education and outreach work. 

Her work in schools is immensely varied, working across the mediums of literature, storytelling, drama and music.  In a project in Dorset schools, she carried out workshops and INSET training in the area of Equality and Justice, using drama, literature, movement, music and the visual arts to explore issues of race, gender and disability.  For a school in east London, she worked with girls of Bengali and Syletti origin to write the play Mure-Mure, the Tree That Sings, which was then publicly performed at the school - a performance that then received praise from the Lloyds Bank Theatre Challenge.   She also brings a wealth of ideas and experience in working with special needs children.

Buy Olusola’s work online

Click on the cover below to buy ‘The Other Side of Truth’, by Beverley Naidoo narrated by Olusola.

Writers in schools

If you would like Olusola Oyeleye to come to your school, contact Barbara on 020 8767 4551 or info@childrensdiscovery.org.uk.