Maria Oshodi (born 1964) is a British writer and theatre director.
A guide dog owner, she is Artistic director and CEO of Extant Theatre Company, Britain's only professional performing arts company of blind and partially sighted people.
Produced by the Cockpit Youth Theatre in 1985, it was chosen for the first International Festival of Young Playwrights, Interplay '85, held in Sydney.
[3] Ben is a fast-food worker who suffers from sickle cell anaemia, but resists pressure from his girlfriend Ashley to label himself as disabled.
[1] Maria was the inspiration for one of the main characters in theatre maker Sheila Hill's 1995 work, Crocodile Looking At Birds, Lyric Hammersmith.