Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre is a British screenwriter, playwright, actor, producer, director, and former songwriter.
In 2023, she adapted and executive produced Agatha Christie's Murder Is Easy as a 2 x 60' limited series for BBC One and BritBox.
Sian's script Misplaced, an emotional thriller about trans-racial adoption spanning four decades, gained her a place on the BBC Drama Room 2018 and 4Screenwriting 2019. Her play for BBC Radio, When Fanny Met Germaine, dramatised the letters, diaries and works of 18th-century novelists Fanny Burney and Germaine de Stael, all observed through the wry perspective of a black servant. When Fanny Met Germaine was first broadcast in November 2019 to critical acclaim, and is available on Audible. Sian's fast-and-loose contemporary adaptation of Dangerous Liasions was produced for BBC Radio and first broadcast in November 2021. Her episode of The Medici: Gangsters, Bankers, Popes was broadcast in January 2023.
Sian was a staff director at the National Theatre, assisting Clint Dyer on both Death of England productions, and an assistant director to Simon McBurney at Complicité Theatre. She is dramaturg on Complicité's latest production, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.
Sian has an English Lit/Lang MA from Magdalen College Oxford and took a further MA in Literature, Culture and Society, 1700-1820 at QMW London. She studied acting at Central School of Speech and Drama. She was a professional songwriter for years and continues to act.
