A Midsummer Night's Dream

THEATRE includes Ring Round The Moon at The Playhouse and The Pride at The Royal Court

TELEVISION & FILM include the upcoming film Jack Ryan and series Little Disasters; the series The Peripheral; the film Prisoner of Paradise; series two of Lost in Space; the series The Romanoffs; and Turn Up Charlie; as well as the Oscar-nominated film Ford v Ferrari; as series regular in New Amsterdam and TURN; and films Austenland, Northanger Abbey, Professor Marston & The Wonder Women; and Captain America.

February 2025

TRAINING Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

THEATRE includes The Country Wife at Chichester Festival Theatre; The Crossing Plays at the Royal Court; Bull at the Young Vic; The Merchant of Venice and American Psycho The Musical at the Almeida; The Beaux’ Stratagem, Much Ado About Nothing, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, Philistines and The Rose Tattoo at the National Theatre; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, and All New People in the West End; The Merchant of Venice for the RSC; Trelawny of the Wells at the Donmar Warehouse; and Breakfast with Ravenhill for Paines Plough.

TELEVISION includes Here We Go, The Cleaner, Who is Erin Carter?, Tom Jones, The Cockfields, This Time with Alan Partridge, Bloods, Life, McDonald & Dodds, Doc Martin, Sticks and Stones, High and Dry, Silent Witness, The Great Indoors, Black Mirror, I Want My Wife Back, Catastrophe, Love Sick, Death in Paradise, Boomers, The Great Fire, Drifters, Father Brown, A Nice Arrangement, The Job Lot, Uncle, Pramface, Le Grand, Pete Versus Life, Dr Who, Filth, Midsomer Murders, and Wallander.

FILM includes Death on the Nile, The C Word, Cosi, and SHORT FILMS The Batsman and the Ballerina, Aria, Watching, and One Day in Hell.

RADIO includes Stone Blind, Magic Mobile, Bedroom Farce, Leave it to Psmith, School for Scandal, Andromache, An Enemy of the People, Lady Windermere’s Fan, and The Cherry Orchard.

February 2025

TRAINING De Montfort University.

THEATRE includes As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe; For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy at the Royal Court, New Diorama and in the West End (nominated for an Olivier Award); Sappho at Southwark Playhouse; The Bald Soprano at Leicester Square, The Spalding Suite at the Southbank Centre and on UK tour; The Ecstatic Bible at Melton Theatre; and pantomimes including Aladdin, Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk at the Lyric Hammersmith.

TELEVISION includes Sex Education, EastEnders, The Crown, 24: Live Another Day, M.I. High, and Grange Hill.

Emmanuel Akwafo is also a playwright and director.

February 2025

TRAINING LAMDA.

THEATRE includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Allelujah! at The Bridge; A Taste of Honey, Light Falls, and Into the Woods at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; To Kill A Mockingbird in the West End (Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role); First Light at Chichester; Shopping and Fucking at the Lyric Hammersmith; Wonderland at Hampstead; and Violence & Son at the Royal Court (Evening Standard Theatre Award for Emerging Talent and Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Newcomer).

TELEVISION includes Larkin, Killing Eve, 1944: Should We Bomb Auschwitz?, Grantchester, Partners in Crime, and Holby City.

FILM includes Blitz, William Tell, Peterloo, and Waiting for the Barbarians.

February 2025

Theatre includes Alys, Always and Julius Caesar at The Bridge; Chess for ENO; Grief is the Thing With Feathers for Black Box and O’Reilly, Ireland, The Barbican and St Ann’s Warehouse, NY; A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer (Complicité), People, Places and Things and As You Like It for the National Theatre; The Kid Stays in the Picture and The Nether for the Royal Court; Chimerica for the Almeida (also West End); The Master and Margarita, A Disappearing Number, Shun-kin, Measure for Measure, A Minute Too Late, Pet Shop Boys Meet Eisenstein, Strange Poetry, The Elephant Vanishes, The Noise of Time, Light and Mnemonic, all for Complicité at the Barbican, National, Almeida and Duchess, and tours in the UK, Europe, the USA and Japan; and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui for National Actors’ Theatre, New York.

Opera includes The Rake’s Progress for Aix en Provence Festival, Dutch National Opera; The Snow Maiden and Hansel & Gretel for Opéra North; Tristan and Isolde for ENO; Benjamin dernier nuit (world premiere) for Opéra National de Lyon; The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and The Importance of Being Earnest for the Royal Opera House; A Dog’s Heart for Dutch National Opera, ENO, La Scala, Milan and Lyon Opera; and Nabucco for Nancy Opéra and Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier.

Dance includes Ballet Spiegelungen Verweile Doch (world premiere) for Saarländisches Staatstheater; In Absentia at Sadler’s Wells; Sun for Hofesh Schechter Company at Sadler’s Wells and international tours; and Just for Show for DV8 at the National Theatre and international tours.

June 2019