Paul Boakye

Paul Boakye is a British playwright, writer and editor whose work has explored Black British life, sexuality, masculinity, family and identity across theatre, radio and publishing.

His plays include Boy with Beer, HAIR, No Mean Street, SAFE and Wicked Games. Boy with Beer was first staged in London in 1992, later published by Methuen Drama in Black Plays 3, and included in Bloomsbury’s Black British Queer Plays and Practitioners. His radio play HAIR won the BBC Young Playwrights Festival.

Boakye has also worked as an editor and social commentator, including as editor of the UK’s Drum magazine. He later spent six years in Ghana working in advertising and creative communications before returning to London.

His writing draws on questions of migration, race, sexuality, belonging and the relationships between generations.