Identity School of Acting began in 2003 with 10 students at the Arcola Theatre in Hackney.

Although open to prospective students of all ethnicities, Oguns founded the institution with the intent of reaching out to black and minority actors and promoting the diversity of the real world on stage and onscreen, as well as holding casting directors to account due to the lack of opportunity he had found in his own early acting experiences.

[1] The school later moved to Holborn, and then again to Brixton, as well as offering online classes.

[4] The Los Angeles branch of Identity School was launched in 2018 with alumni John Boyega, Letitia Wright, Malachi Kirby, Damson Idris, and Melanie Liburd as patrons of the new faculty.

[5] Oguns and Boyega launched a production arm of the institution, Identity Filmworks, in 2019.