[5][6] Elufowoju's stage work has been seen across most key flagship production houses in the UK, and has collaborated extensively with notable creatives within the film, television and radio sectors.
[12] He artistically led the company for 13 years, directing and presenting more than thirty plays, including his productions of Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not to Blame[13] and Oladipo Agboluaje's Iya-Ile: The First Wife[14] (nominated for the Olivier Award).
[17] In 2019, he directed Bim Adewunmi's Hoard, written for BBC Arts and Avalon as part of an initiative to encourage writers from genres outside of theatre to write for the stage.
As part of Manchester's Halle Orchestra 2021 spring season, Sir Mark Elder invited Annabel Arden and Elufowoju to direct a staged performance of Stravinsky's 1918 masterpiece The Soldier's Tale,[23] read, played, and danced by three actors, a dancer and seven instrumentalists.
As part of Manchester's Halle Orchestra 2021 spring season, Sir Mark Elder invited Annabel Arden and Elufowoju to direct a staged performance of Stravinsky's 1918 masterpiece The Soldier's Tale.[?]
[32] The Guardian's four-star review spoke of Elufowoju's debut as being "so powerful and so current and at the same time so true to the artistic force of Verdi's setting of Victor Hugo that it is somehow surprising that it has taken until now for someone to put it on the stage."
Elufowoju in the summer of 2018 directed a stage adaptation of Lola Shoneyin's The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives in a full co-production with the Arcola Theatre.
Elufowoju's notable television appearances include in the much lauded BBC comedy series Little Miss Jocelyn as Mr Omwokpopopo, serial dramas Moses Jones, Wire in the Blood, Borgen, Enterprice, Year of the Rabbit, Silent Witness, and the first two seasons of Sex Education.
[39] Between 1999 and 2006, Elufowoju joined Yvonne Brewster, Graham Whybrow, Roland Rees and Mustapha Mutura respectively on the judging committee for the Alfred Fagon Award.
In 2003, Elufowoju was appointed Segment Director facilitating the Commonwealth Parade (The Mall Pageant) on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Elufowoju has spent periods returning to his ancestral home Nigeria, building alliances with notable creative cultural leaders including Governor Kayode Fayemi, Lola Shoneyin Akin Adejuwon, Efe Paul Azino, ex-Governor Kayode Fayemi[42] and theatre impresarios Bolanle Austen Peters[43] and Teniola Olatoni Ojigbede.