Oli’s play BRACE BRACE premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2024. He was the recipient of the Jerwood New Playwright award in the same year and is currently under commission to the Royal Court for a new play.

In 2021, he was invited to join Mike Bartlett’s writing group at Hampstead Theatre and was commissioned to write THE POX, for the main stage. In 2019 CASH COW was produced at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, quickly followed by a run in Edinburgh. Also in 2019, SUCH FILTHY F*CKS, a Smoke & Oakum/Pleasance co-production ran at the Vaults Festival in London.

Smoke & Oakum, Oli’s own theatre company, produced his plays:TINDERBOX (2014) which was nominated for an Amnesty International Award;CORNERMEN (2015) at The Old Red Lion and The Pleasance, then transferring to VAULT Festival and touring in co-production with Red Ladder Company/New Diorama Theatre (2018).  New Diorama Theatre/Smoke & Oakum co-produced HAPPY DAVE (2016) and KINGS (2017).