Adesola Thomas is an Atlanta-raised, Brooklyn based Nigerian-American writer-director. She makes films about Black domestic life, climate reality, and queer Southern subcultures to examine care and interdependence as essential practices for a livable life. Her work is spurred by her reverence of the two metro Atlanta environs that reared her, the interfaith Nigerian immigrant community and the queer punk environmental scene. In the words of Larry David, what a combo!

In 2022, Adesola received her Masters in Screenwriting & Playwriting from the University of St Andrews where she was a Robert T Jones Fellow. For her writing and direction of flounder. a two-act climate catastrophe comedy, she was nominated for Best Play and Best Script at the 2022 Golden Seashell Theater Awards. For her creation of flounder., coordination of a climate resilience dance and sustainable art exhibition, Adesola was shortlisted for the St Andrews Enterprising Mind of the Year Award. She bookended her Masters program with television and film development internships at A24.

Adesola is the head writer for Sapphic Cyborgs, a forthcoming audio drama about a family of Black anthropomorphic trees who migrate to outer space from Earth. She is the NY Producer for Letterboxd (LB), where she writes for their film journal, Journal and produces video interviews during festivals (Sundance, NYFF, Tribeca).

Summer of 2023, Adesola wrote and directed Ola Ola, a comedy short about a surprise reunion between two queer cousins that’s been acquired by indie-streamer, No Budge. Ola Ola has  screened at Millenium Film and Southern Fried Queer Pride’s Cinequeer series.

Adesola is a 2024 Bleecker Street BIPOC Mentorship Fellow, a 2024 Sundance Press Inclusion Initiative Fellow, and a proud member of the New York Script Supervisors network. She enjoys 1st AD’ing music videos, dancing at parties, and swimming with friends.

2020 Jury Award - Campus Movie Fest
(Emory University)
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