Shakespeare Okuni practised with Footsbarn Travelling Theatre and the Werdyn Gypsy Horse Circus before running away from the circus to act out and direct in England, France, Ghana, and Lebanon. He is the author of Black Box, a play for the actors of the National Theatre of Ghana, and Mabinogion, a libretto for string quartet, flute, and storyteller. With The Dreaming Chorus, a series of devised theatre workshops, he is developing a new piece drawn from William Shakespeare's unsettled plays.