Her first play, Egusi Soup was produced in 2012 by Menagerie Theatre/Soho Theatre.
In 2011 Okoh won the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting for her play Three Birds (which would be produced in 2013), which she entered under a pseudonym Ebenezer Foot.
[5][6] She has also written for radio, including an adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses.
Okoh has also written for television, contributing episodes of Doctors, Hetty Feather and On the Edge .
She joined the writing team for series 2 of ITV's Sanditon.