Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini on Bola Agbaje's Gone Too Far!
In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher.
Mike sits with Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini, recipient of a 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize in Drama, to discuss Bola Agbaje’s Olivier-winning play Gone Too Far! as well as the joys of seeing yourself in the art you wish to create.
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Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini is the author of Muscovado, Little Miss Burden, and the Olivier-award-winning Sleepova. Ibini is the recipient of the Inevitable Foundation x Loreen Arbus Elevate Collective Award (2024), a Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright (2023), and an Alfred Fagon Audience Award (2015), among other honors. They have written across a variety of mediums including children’s books, for the screen, and audio dramas for BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, and Audible. Ibini lives in East London.
The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast is a program of The Windham-Campbell Prizes, which are administered by Yale University Library’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present winners of the Windham-Campbell Prizes about books and plays that they love, hosted by prize director Michael Kelleher. The Windham-Campbell Prizes are administered by Yale University Library’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The podcast is a co-production between The Windham-Campbell Prizes and Literary Hub. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. Production & Engineering by Drew Broussard. Music by Dani Lencioni.
