A Theatre Arts graduate of the University of Ibadan, Jude has worked extensively in the film and theatre industry as a Director, Producer, Writer and Actor. He is the winner of the best screenplay award at the African Movie Academy Awards for his multi-award winning film “The Tenant.” He won the Goethe Institut Afrika Projekt and was a finalist in the New Directions Filmmakers of the future project by MNET. He was also selected as one of the screenwriters for the Toronto International Film Festival’s ADAPT THIS!  project.

Jude directed the stage plays “Flood”, “Brixton Stories” and “Lost”, while his play “Coma” is currently being made into a film. He has written extensively and his most recent literary works are a collection of short stories “A Box of Chocolates”, an anthology of poetry “Exotica Celestica”, a stage play “Oduduwa – King of the Edos” and the first book in a trilogy of novels “By My Own Hands.”