Ade Solanke is a playwright, screenwriter and story analyst. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Southern California. While in America, Ade worked as a story analyst at New Line Cinema, the Sundance Institute and the Mark Taper Forum in LA, as well as in the story department of Hollywood Pictures, Disney. As a freelance arts journalist, Ade has contributed to the Guardian, the New Statesman, West Africa Magazine, The Voice, Art Monthly and the Times Literary Supplement. An impressive writer across various forms, Solanke has been described by the Guardian as "breathtakingly candid. . . another strong female presence"
