---
name: "Yemi Oyefuwa"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yemi-oyefuwa"
fi1m_id: "yemi-oyefuwa"
imdb_id: "nm6913152"
tmdb_id: 3931378
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:17:17.727967+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Yemi Oyefuwa

## Identity

Yemi Oyefuwa

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yemi-oyefuwa
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** yemi-oyefuwa
- **IMDb ID:** nm6913152
- **TMDB ID:** 3931378
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6913152/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3931378

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6913152/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3931378

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Dreaming Whilst Black*](https://film.one/tv/dreaming-whilst-black.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Yemi Oyefuwa is a British screenwriter. She holds an MFA in Writing & Producing for TV and is represented by Cynthia Okoye at Curtis Brown.

She wrote episodes of the BAFTA-nominated BBC Three comedy series *Dreaming Whilst Black* (2023–2025). Other credits include an episode of the Netflix thriller *Fool Me Once* (2024), episodes of *Boarders* (2024–), additional material for *Everything I Know About Love* (2022) and *Smothered* (2023), and an episode of *Tell Me Everything* (2022). She created and wrote the Sky Comedy Showcase short *Six Foot Something* (2023).

Oyefuwa was nominated for a BAFTA Craft Award and named a Broadcast Hotshot in 2024.

*Sources: yemioyefuwa.com, imdb.com, curtisbrown.co.uk, en.wikipedia.org, broadcastnow.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dreaming Whilst Black* (2021), Fi1m 81, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/dreaming-whilst-black.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Boarders* (2024), series, Writer
- *Fool Me Once* (2024), series, Writer
- *Dreaming Whilst Black* (2021), series, Writer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/dreaming-whilst-black.md)

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