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Wilderness is a TV miniseries produced by Firebird Pictures for Amazon Prime Video based on the novel of the same name by B. E. Jones.

Matilda co-wrote episode 4 'Home Sweet Home'.

A short film commissioned by Film4 and 104 Films. MO <3 KYRA is set during a leavers dance where a girl finally decides to let the girl of her dreams know how she feels. Co-written and directed by Debbie Hannan.

You can watch all the short films on Channel 4 here.

As part of MicroPlays, a series of short digital plays, Head Over Wheels is  an irreverently comic take on dating as a disabled person.  

Dir. Lisle Turner

Starring: Saida Ahmed, Michelle Tiwo and  Claire Coaché  

Produced by Martina Klich, Open Sky Theatre and Wrapt Films.

‘Microplays’ won two Digital Culture Network's #DigitalCultureAwards for Digital Inclusion and the Winner’s Winner overall for 2021.

CripTales is a collection of six 15-minute monologues curated by Mat Fraser.

The monologues are written by Mat Fraser, Jackie Hagan, Jack Thorne, Genevieve Barr, Tom Wentworth, Matilda Feyisayo Ibini; performed by Mat Fraser, Robert Softley Gale, Ruth Madeley, Jackie Hagan, Liz Carr, Carly Houston; and directed by Ewan Marshall, Amit Sharma and Jenny Sealey.

The short films are produced in association with BBC Studios’ Documentary Unit, BBC America and exec produced by Debbie Christie.

Influenced by Afrofuturism and classic sci-fi movies, Shielders takes a unique look at the very alien world we now find ourselves in and its impact on those who still find themselves on the inside, looking out.

Dir. Debbie Hannan

Video designer. Lewis den Hertog

Composer & Sound designer. Mwen

Cast: Michael Ahomka-Lindsay, Danielle Fiamanya & Laura Lovemore

'Hey Kid' was commissioned by Bush Theatre, as part of 'The Protest' - six short dramatized pieces. Curated by Daniel Bailey.

Dir. Debbie Hannan

Starring: Saida Ahmed, Lucianne McEvoy and Golda Rosheuvel.

Presented by Headlong Theatre Company and Century Films, Unprecedented series on BBC4 .  (Watch now on BBC iPlayer)

Dir. Debbie Hannan

Produced by: Audible x LAMDA x Wondermore Productions

Dir. Debbie Hannan & Polly Thomas

Starring:  Saida Ahmed, Ani Nelson, Ewa Dina and Diana Yekinni

Produced by Naked Productions for BBC Radio 4

Dir. Jennifer Bakst

Performed by Paapa Essiedu

Edited by Max Pappenheim

As part of English Touring Theatre's F**ked Up Bedtime Stories series

Listen at your own peril here.

Half hour audio drama produced by Naked Productions for BBC Radio 3.

Dir. Polly Thomas

Starring: Lois Chimimba, Shvorne Marks and Nick Ikunda

The Guilty Feminist presents 'LOUD VOICES', in this spin-off from Deborah Frances-White’s Guilty Feminist podcast, four diverse writers: Deborah Frances-White, Bisha K Ali, Matilda Ibini and Avery Edison present four hilarious sit-com pilots. Have a listen here: http://loudvoices.libsyn.com/

Sleepova makes its American Premiere at the Olney Theare Centre in the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab! 

Directed by Paige Hernandez

The U.S. production will run from:

26th March 2025 - 27th  April 2025

Burnt at the Stake, or The Whole of the Truth at the Globe Theatre is co-curated by Hannah Khalil and Morgan Lloyd-Malcolm. Naeem Hayat and Indiana Lown-Collins will co-direct.  

Featuring anonymised work by: Abi Zakarian, Amy Trigg, Chinonyerem Odimba, Chloë Moss , Gilbert Kyem Jnr, Jasmine Naziha Jones, Lucy Sheen, Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini, Philip Ishak Arditti, Ric Renton, Tabby Lamb, Tanika Gupta, and Timberlake Wertenbaker.  

A Bush Theatre production: 24th February 2023 to 8th April 2023.

Dir. Jade Lewis

Cast: Shayde Sinclair, Aliyah Odoffin, Amber Grappy and Bukky Bakray.

• Winner of the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre
  
• Winner of the Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright

Living Newspaper - Edition 1 was the first edition of Royal Court Theatre’s project Living Newspaper: A Counter Narrative, a weekly live newspaper running over six weeks which saw the theatre reopen since its closure in March 2020.   

The newspaper will be created a collective of writers responsible for the front page and overall tone of the edition.

Edition 1 was written by Miriam Battye, Amir Gudarzi, Nazareth Hassan, Matilda Feyisayo Ibini, Sonia Jalaly, Jasmine Lee-Jones, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Somalia Nonyé Seaton, Katherine Soper, Chris Thorpe, Temi Wilkey and Daniel York Loh.

The Virtual Collaborators have launched ‘Dream Casting’, pairing writers and actors to create short monologues to dismantle, challenge, and disrupt ‘typecasting’ in the industry – particularly for artists of colour. Dream Casting promises to be funny, political, bold, imaginative. Click here to see the full line-up of exciting partnerships.

Matilda was paired with Ayesha Antoine.

'The Pillow Whisperers' is  one of

19 in a collection  of stories for the nation (to perform and record themselves), exploring humanity and the unprecedented circumstances  we are currently living in.    

WHERE DO WE GO NEXT? is a film project featuring six new short films from underrepresented writers interrogating the importance of diverse, political theatre in an increasingly hostile environment.

Curated by director Caitriona Shoobridge (Ivan and the Dogs, Killymuck) these films ask; who is responsible for creating theatre spaces that reflect the society they serve? 

Curated by Athena Stevens & Robin Norton-Hale, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

Notes to the Forgotten She-Wolves is inspired by Sandi Toksvig’s ongoing campaign to redress gender imbalance.

Writers include Winsome Pinnock, Sandi Toksvig OBE, Sabrina Mahfouz, Catherine Mayer, Stella Duffy OBE, Matilda Feyisayo Ibini, Emma Frankland, Eve Leigh and Amy Ng.

Director Debbie Hannan, Bunker Theatre

Little Miss Burden was published by Concord Theatricals. It is also available to purchase from Amazon, Waterstones and Foyles.

Cast: Saida Ahmed, Ani Nelson and Michelle Tiwo.

Won a Popcorn Finalist Award 2020.

Head Over Wheels, Director Lisle Turner, Open Sky & Courtyard Hereford

MicroPlays is a digital theatre project. Five playwrights: Kate Attwell, Matilda Feyisayo Ibini, Iman Qureshi, Tena Štivičić and Emily White were asked to write five minute plays in response to the theme of “cultural polarization”.

Curated by Rachel De-Lahay & Milli Bhatia, Bunker Theatre

My White Best Friend and Other Letters Left Unsaid was published by Oberon Books

Director Adrian Lester, Old Vic Theatre

Director Jen Tan, Miniaturists #68, Arcola Theatre

Director Lucy Jane Atkinson, Untold Stories @ RADA Studios. A feminist, flash mob, fundraising evening of theatre - work written, directed and performed by women.

Director Bryony Kimmings, Bush Theatre

Director Blythe Stewart, Oxford School of Drama, Soho Theatre

Director Emily Collins, Pint-Sized & Damsel Productions @ Bunker Theatre

Director Oliver Dawe, PLAY Theatre Company, Subterranean Season @ Vaults Festival

Director Helen Barnett, Sphinx Theatre, Women's Centre Stage Festival @ Hampstead Theatre Downstairs

Director Jenny Sealey, Women's Centre Stage Festival @ Hampstead Theatre Downstairs

Director Holly Race Roughan, PLAY Theatre Company @ Paines Plough Roundabout Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Play 19 was published in Pocket Plays anthology by Oberon Books.

Director Daryl Beeton, Graeae Theatre Company

Director Holly Race Roughan, PLAY Theatre Company @ Hackney Showroom

 Play 19 was published in Pocket Plays anthology by Oberon Books. 

Director Helen Abbott, Talawa Theatre Company and the Royal Exchange, Manchester presents world premieres of 10 short plays inspired by a line from King Lear: Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

Director Jen Tan @ Hackney Showroom. Papercut Theatre’ gave Matilda and three writers one job: Write a short play without specifying gender for any of the characters. The result? One play. No gender. Endless possibilities.

Director Jo Greaves, St. James Theatre

Director Helen Barnett @ National Theatre Shed, for Sphinx Theatre's Women Centre Stage Festival 

Director Sophie de Vries, Theatre503 (2 week run) and UK Tour (30+ performances) 2015

- Director Clemmie Reynolds, Holy Trinity Clapham (1 week run) 2014

- Excerpt, Director Clemmie Reynolds, V&A Museum 2014

- Rehearsed reading, Director Clemmie Reynolds, Omnibus Theatre 2014

'Voices from the Future' Showcase

Director Alison Goldie, Arcola Theatre

Director Penny Cliff, Soho Theatre

Director Franko Figueiredo, (Contributor) Albany Theatre

Director Aoife Mannix, in partnership with Royal Shakespeare Company and IdeasTap

Director Matt Wilde and Genevieve Barr @ Only Connect Theatre