Diana Nneka Atuona

{{Short description|Nigerian-British playwright}}

Diana Nneka Atuona is a Nigerian-British playwright from Peckham, London. She studied at South Bank University before winning a scholarship from Gray's Inn to study law.

Her first play Liberian Girl won the Alfred Fagon award (2013) and opened at the Royal Court Theatre in 2015 to widespread acclaim.{{cite news |author=Michael Billington |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jan/14/liberian-girl-review-civil-war |title=Liberian Girl review – striking debut evokes horror of civil war |work=The Guardian|date=14 January 2015|accessdate=5 March 2023}}{{cite news |author=Paul Taylor |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/liberian-girl-royal-court-review-powerfully-disturbing-and-immersive-9975896.html |title=Liberian Girl, Royal Court, review: Powerfully disturbing and immersive |work=The Independent|date=14 January 2015|accessdate=5 March 2023}}{{cite news |author=Ben Lawrence |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/11344455/Liberian-Girl-Royal-Court-Upstairs-review-horrors-up-close.html |title=Liberian Girl, Royal Court Upstairs, review: 'horrors up close' |work=The Telegraph|date=14 January 2015}} Atuona was also nominated for the Evening Standard Award as Most Promising Playwright and the Writer's Guild award for Best New Play.

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Her second play, Trouble in Butetown, premiered at London's Donmar Warehouse in February 2023. It follows a black American GI who finds himself in the multicultural surroundings of Butetown, Cardiff.{{cite news |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/trouble-in-butetown-review |title='Trouble in Butetown' - review |work=Timeout |date=20 February 2023|accessdate=5 March 2023}}{{cite news |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/westend/article/Review-TROUBLE-IN-BUTETOWN-Donmar-Warehouse-20230221 |title=Review: Trouble in Butetown - Donmar Warehouse |work=Broadway World |date=21 February 2023|accessdate=5 March 2023}}{{cite news |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/theatre/trouble-in-butetown-donmar-warehouse-review-enjoyable-hokum-b1061849.html |title=Trouble in Butetown at Donmar Warehouse review: an enjoyable piece of hokum |work=Evening Standard|place=London|date=21 February 2023|accessdate=5 March 2023}}{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/feb/21/trouble-in-butetown-review-donmar-warehouse |title=Trouble in Butetown review – humanity and heroism in wartime Cardiff |work=The Guardian|date=21 February 2023|accessdate=5 March 2023}}{{cite news |url=https://www.iwa.wales/agenda/2023/03/review-trouble-in-butetown/ |title=Review: Trouble in Butetown |work=The Welsh Agenda|publisher=Institute of Welsh Affairs|date=4 March 2023|accessdate=5 March 2023}}