Taiwo Ajai-Lycett

  • Height: 5' 3"
  • Eye Colour: Brown
  • Hair Colour: Black
  • Hair Length: Short
  • Playing Age: 50-65 years
  • Unions: Fellow of the Society of Nigerian Theatre Artists (SONTA); Equity
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TRAINING

The Guildhall School of Music & Drama

 Acting, Music, Voice & Dance

Television

  • 9/11 Docu-Drama, Channel 4, Irma Fueller
  • Angels, BBC Television · Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
  • The Young Ones, Channel 4 · Crown Court
  • Frankie Howerd's History of England, BBC Television
  • Comedy Playhouse; Armchair 30 · The Mansion
  • ITV’s Black & Blue Farces, ITV
  • Paul Temple · Soap Opera in Stockwell · The Honourable
  • Play Away, BBC Television · Winds Against My Soul

Theatre

  • Mrs Anyia, Egusi Soup, Eastern Angles Theatre Company, Paul Bourne
  • A Streetcar Named Desire, The Bristol Old Vic
  • Caravaggio Buddy, Edinburgh International Festival
  • Critical Mass, Almeida Theatre, Emma Bernard
  • Death and the King's Horseman, The National Theatre, Lagos Nigeria
  • Murderous Angels, The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
  • Parcel Post, The Royal Court
  • The Black & White Minstrels, The Traverse Theatre, C P Taylor
  • Shylock, Muson Centre
  • The Divorce, The National Theatre, Lagos Nigeria
  • The Lion and the Jewel, The Royal Court
  • The Maids, Colchester Mercury Theatre
  • The Refusal, The Playroom Theatre Club, Soho
  • The Vogue, The National Theatre, Lagos Nigeria

Film

  • A Warm December, Sidney Poitier

Other

  • Commercial, Lebara Mobile, Nodachi
  • Radio, Presenter, BBC World Service "Calling Nigeria", BBC Radio
  • Radio, This Sporting Life, BBC Radio
  • Corporate, ILEA Education
  • Opera, Dancer, Wagner’s Tannhauser, The Royal Opera House
  • The Journey of John "Fun" Fare, art installation by Kerri Davenport-Burton

SKILLS

  • Performance:
    Radio Presenting, Voice Over
  • Need to know:
    Taiwo is an Officer of the Order of the Niger (a Nigerian National Honour equivalent of a Dame)