Joshua Alabi is the Founder and Creative Director of Kininso Koncepts Production. He is a versatile director, writer, and producer.  He excels in socially engaged theatre (deals with themes of climate, gender studies, health and wellbeing, GBV, Youth, migration, etc), filmmaking and cultural innovation. A Prize recipient for ‘Kolofu’ at the 2023 Kuss Festival, in Germany. He received the Mervin Stutter Award in 2014 at the Edinburgh Fringe, UK.

As CEO of Kininso Koncepts, he creatively narrates African stories using strategy, design and media in the theatre. He pioneered Africa’s First Digital/Mixed Reality theater project, reaching audiences across The Netherlands and Denmark and his innovative work earned the Golden Calf Awards for Best Digital Culture at the Netherlands Film Festival 2023.  He directed one of Nigeria’s biggest musical project ‘Queen Moremi’ for House of Oduduwa and Ooni of Ife and directed the short film “Undersight” for Paradigm initiative: a social enterprise that advocates for digital rights and inclusion in Africa. The film subtitled in Swahili and French emphasized the importance of digital rights and inclusion. He also created and directed Imagination Tv with ‘Junges Schauspiel, Dusseldorf (Dhaus) in Germany inspired by Chimamanda Adichie’s speech “Dangers of a Single Story and the film “Beast of No Nation’.

Joshua was selected among several young global storytellers to train at the catalyst Story Institute and join the HBO, Jada and Will Smith Foundation and US Department of State-Innovation Centre Funded project further expanding his international reach. He is also the Producer/Founder of KIFT- Kininso International Festival of Theatre, the foremost and largest international children’s theatre festival in Nigeria. He revitalized the African Festival Network; a platform to connect festival makers from all part of Africa to focus on influencing seamless policies that establish stronger collaborations.

Joshua believes in the power of storytelling, using culture, art, trends, mythology and research to making statement of relevance, change perception, challenge status-quo.  He wishes to inspire greatness through telling Nigerian and African stories to the world.He has collaborated internationally, spanning the UK, Netherlands, South Africa, Turkey, Cameroon, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Spain, Germany, Angola, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Rwanda etc