Agbaje was born at
St Thomas' Hospital in the
Waterloo area of London, England, to Nigerian parents, her father a civil servant and her mother a cook, and grew up in on the
North Peckham Estate. She briefly lived in Nigeria between the ages of six and eight. After beginning her studies at
Identity Drama School, Agbaje withdrew and instead joined the
Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers Programme. Works such as
Gone Too Far! and
Belong examine these elements alongside the tensions and conflicts between racial and ethnic identities. Agbaje's first play,
Gone Too Far!, was produced at the
Royal Court Theatre in London, where it won the
2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. In 2018, Agbaje was elected as a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature (RSL), one of 40 under the age of 40 elected in an RSL initiative designed "to address historical biases". ==References==