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Ibukun is a playwright, director, stage manager, producer, and researcher. With his works performed in theatres across five countries on three continents, he has made significant contributions to musical theatre, site-specific performances, and children’s theatre, among other genres. In 2022, Ibukun was selected for the Saskatchewan Playwright Centre’s “Write Like You Mean It” program to write the play "Breathe". His play, “Beertanglement,” earned second runner-up honors at the 4th Beeta International Playwright Competition in 2021. In 2023, he received a Canada Council for the Arts grant to direct and produce his play “Rites of Passage” as part of On Cue Performance Hub’s Riser Regina program. He also wrote "Off Guard"; a play that centres on anti-Black racism in 2023, and it was later funded by Creative Saskatchewan, and staged in 2024. 

His directing portfolio includes acclaimed productions such as Rites of Passage, Off Guard, Death and the King’s Horseman, OMG The Musical, Home, Annie the Musical, Many Colours Make the Thunder-King, and Maybe Tomorrow. Since 2007, Ibukun has stage-managed over 50 productions, totaling more than 600 performances. Notable works include Fela and the Kalakuta Queens, Wakaa the Musical, Saro the Musical, Orlando, Fela Arrest the Music, Make We Waka, Heartbeat the Musical, and Trials of Brother Jero. His expertise extends to film and television, where he has served as a production manager on projects such as Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Collision Course, and Open Secret.

Additionally, he served as the producer for the British Council’s Lagos Theatre Festival in 2019. As a theatre artist and scholar, Ibukun focuses on anti-racism, site-specific performance, spectatorship, and socially engaged works. He is the Southern Artistic Director at Common Weal Community Arts and he is currently a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Media Art and Performance at the University of Regina. His research-creation dissertation centres on Site-Specific Performance, Racial Relations and the Nigerian community in Regina. He is also a UNESCO Janusz Korczak Chair Research Fellow. He also has a couple of articles and books to his credit which focus on Settler Colonialism, Site-Specific Performance, and African theatre.