Paul Ugbede is an award-winning playwright and novelist.

He is the author of several published and performed plays including Drooping Palms, Raping the Land, Trading Places, Two Characters Undefined, August Meeting, Fela: Arrest the Music, Dialing Love and Our Son Minister. His articles and short stories have appeared on Waza Online, Muwado, and Jalada Online and his play Fire in the Night and Other Stories was included in the 2014 Writivism Anthology edited by Sumayya Lee. Paul Ugbede is the winner of the inaugural Beeta Playwright Competition.