Noma Dumezweni is a Laurence Olivier Award-winning English actress based in London.

Born in Swaziland, of South African parents, Dumenzweni came to England with her family as a child, first living in Suffolk, where she was educated, before moving to London.

Dumezweni's work in theatre includes: President of an Empty Room and The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other at the National Theatre, London;Breakfast with Mugabe,Antony and Cleopatra and Much Ado About Nothing for the RSC; A Raisin in the Sun for the Young Vic at the Lyric Hammersmith, London (for which she won her Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role); A Midsummer Night's Dream,The Master and Margarita,Nathan the Wise and The Coffee House at Chichester Festival Theatre, 6 Characters Searching for an Author at the Gielgud Theatre and The Bogus Woman at the Traverse and the Bush. In spring of 2009 she is appearing in the RSC's "A Winter's Tale".

In radio, she has appeared in Jambula Tree, Seven Wonders of the Divided World, From Fact to Fiction,From Freedom to the Future, Handprint,Jane's Story,Sagila, Shylock,The Farming of Bones,The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency,The Seven Ages of Car, The Bogus Woman and Breakfast with Mugabe.

Bola Agbaje (born c. 1981) is an award-winning British playwright of Nigerian origin.

Her first play Gone Too Far! premièred at the Royal Court Theatre in London in February 2007 and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliated theatre (2008). Due to its success it was revived at a number of theatres in 2008. Royal Court theatre, Albany theatre and Hackney Empire. She is currently writing Gone too Far into a film script and received a development funding from the UK Film Council.

In July 2008 her second play open the Tiata Delights season at the Almeida Theatre. Agbaje was nominated for the 2008 Evening Standard's Charles Wintour Award For Most Promising Playwright. This however went to Tarell Alvin McCraney. In 2009 Agbaje was commissioned by the Tricycle Theatre alongside Roy Williams and Kwame Kwei-Armah to be a part of the Not black and white season. Agbaje's play Detaining Justice opened on the 25th of November 2009 and the show sold out.

Agbaje is still writing. Her second play for the Royal Court Theatre - Off the Endz opened on 19 February 2010 directed by Jeremy Herrin.