Nyoaka Squire

Nyoaka Squire (born 1979) is a British playwright, poet and writer. She began writing poetry at the age of 8 and began to write plays at 11. Her plays have been performed in both Jamaica and England in small theatre production companies. She owns her own company Scripted Squire, which aims to use writing as a tool for finding identity. Her writing style is both realist and surrealist. Her main influences are avant-garde theatre and films influenced by "auteur theory".
Plays
*All the World Leaders (1993)
*The Circus Players (1994)
*Chipped (1994)
*8D (1996)
*The Knock On Effect (1998)
*War for Profit (1998)
*Nanny (2001)
*My Life In Shorts (2002)
*Life is Death (2004)
*Windrush (2005)
*Subtitles (2006)
Screenplays
*REX: The King (2009)
*Section 8 : I DID (2010)
Personal life
She was born in Dulwich, London in 1979 to a Playboy bunny and a plasterer who are both Jamaican and had moved to England in the 1960s. She migrated to Jamaica in 1986 with her parents, where she received most of her education. She returned to England in 1999. She has done a degree at the University of the West of England in Drama and Film Studies. She has a daughter and currently lives in Bristol.

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