The Gift

Anastasia Osei-Kuffour is a writer and director who began her career in 2012, training as a theatre director through the Young Vic Directors Programme. She went on to train on the National Theatre's Director's course in 2017 and as an artistic director on the tiata fahodzi led Artistic Director Leadership Programme. She was also an Associate Director at Theatre 503 (Aug 2019 to May 2021) and went on to work alongside Stephen Williams on the Searchlight feature film Chevalier, which had its UK release in June 2023.

She is also an Artistic Director of Wrested Veil, a production company that unveils stories that explore truth and the human story behind real world issues, in order to spark change.

Janice Okoh is an award-winning playwright. Her first play Egusi Soup was produced in 2012 by Menagerie Theatre/Soho Theatre and went on a national tour in 2014 with Menagerie/ Theatre Royal Bury St Edmonds as producers. It won a Channel 4 Playwriting Award in 2017.

Her second play, Three Birds, won the Bruntwood Playwriting Prize in 2011 and was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate and Alfred Fagon awards in that same year. It was produced in 2013. Okoh's play The Gift opened at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry in January 2020 before moving on to the Theatre Royal Stratford East. It was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

She has also written for radio, including an adaptation of Malorie Blackman's Noughts & Crosses.

This play contains adult content, including references of racial abuse and violence, blood and injury detail, explicit and discriminatory language (including that around race), and references to enslavement.