Jude Idada

A winner of an AMAA best screenplay award, ANAA prize for Drama, Goethe Institut AfrikaProjekt and the first runner up of the NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature, he has continually blazed
a trail in the art scene. He was also a finalist in the New Directions Filmmakers of the future project
by MNET in addition to being selected as one of the playwrights for the British Council’s Lagos Theatre Festival. Amongst many, Jude was also selected as one of the screenwriters for the Toronto International Film Festival’s ‘ADAPT THIS!’ and the Afrinolly/Ford Foundation ‘Cinema4Change' projects.

As the resident director of the Africa Theatre Ensemble in Toronto, Canada, Jude directed the stageplays “Flood,” “Brixton Stories,” “Lost” and “Coma”, the later which he adapted for screen is
currently in pre-production. Alongside several optioned screenplays, he has written and published a collection of short stories “A Box of Chocolates”, an anthology of poetry “Exotica Celestica”, a stage play “Oduduwa – King of the Edos,” the first book in a trilogy of novels “By My Own
Hands,” and the children's book "Didi Kanu and the Singing Dwarfs of the North."

He has guest lectured at the Caroll University in Wisconsin, USA and the Mofilm/Unilever Sunlight Foundation Film Project in Lagos, Nigeria, alongside chairing several panels at International Film Festivals and writing for various magazines.

An avowed artiste across several media, Jude continues to chart his course in the fields of cross cultural
enlightenment, socio-political pedagogy,
cosmospiritual deconstruction and
parapsychological exploration.