Ife Olujobi (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based Nigerian American playwright, screenwriter, and editor from Columbia, Maryland. She is a member of the Obie-winning Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theatre, was a member of Play Group at Ars Nova, a New Voices Fellow at The Lark, an alumnus of the 2018-19 Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater and the 2020 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, an inaugural Project Number One artist-in-residence at Soho Rep, the recipient of a 2020 Sloan Foundation commission from Manhattan Theatre Club and a 2021 Steinberg Playwright Award, and was a Creatives Rebuild New York Artist-in-Residence at the Public Theater.

Their play Jordans won a special commendation from the 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was produced in the Public’s spring 2024 season. Her work has also been seen at the Bushwick Starr, HERE Arts Center, Bishop Arts Theater Center, and more, and their plays include Smoke, MARKETPLACE, Color Girls, and others. They are the recipient of the inaugural Advocacy Award from the Dramatists Guild for their work organizing in service of pay transparency and pay equity for playwrights.

She conceived and edited the interview book No Play, is the managing editor of The Supplements book series at Soho Rep, curates film screenings with the collective New Cinema Club, and was an assistant editor at the Criterion Collection. They received their BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2016.