Tiwa Lade is a British-Nigerian actor and writer, represented by 42MP and Independent Talent Group in London.

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A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, Tiwa works across stage and screen. She won Best Female Lead in a Play at the Black British Theatre Awards for her performance as Peace in My Father's Fable at the Bush Theatre. Most recently on stage, she played Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe and Mabel Chiltern in An Ideal Husband at Lyric Hammersmith.

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Tiwa has just wrapped Jeremy Zagar's feature The Painted Bride. Her other screen work includes Mike Leigh's Hard Truths, BBC's Black Ops and ITVX's Tell Me Everything.

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Alongside acting, Tiwa writes stories exploring identity, family and the things we keep hidden from one another. She adapted her play RUSH for screen, with the screenplay shortlisted for the Neal Street Productions Screenwriting Bursary, reaching the top 2% of the BBC Writersroom Open Call and selected for the BBC Felix Dexter Award.

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She has since written for BBC's Phoenix Rise and is developing a slate of original film and television projects. Her play Small Talk was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Playwriting, and she writes essays and memoir pieces on Substack at @thetiwalade.