Taiwo Ajai Lycett

Taiwo
Ajai-Lycett

HEIGHT 5´8" HAIR Black EYES Brown
 
TRAINING The Guildhall School of Music and Drama
THEATRE    
Critical Mass Emma Bernard (dir) Almeida Theatre
The Lion and the Jewel Wole Soyinka The Royal Court
Parcel Post Yemi Ajibade The Royal Court
Wagner’s Tannhauser (dancer) The Royal Opera House
The Refusal Mario Fratti The Playroom Theatre Club, Soho
Murderous Angels Conor Cruise O’Brien The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
The Black & White Minstrels C P Taylor The Traverse Theatre
Caravaggio Buddy Stanley Eveling Edinburgh International Festival
A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams The Bristol Old Vic
The Maids Jean Genet Colchester Mercury Theatre
The Divorce Wale Ogunyemi The National Theatre, Lagos Nigeria
The Vogue Soji Simpson The National Theatre. Lagos Nigeria
Death & The King’s Horsemen Wole Soyinka The National Theatre, Lagos Nigeria
Shylock Arnold Wesker Muson Centre
 
FILM & TV
Sidney Poitier's A Warm December . Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'em . Frankie Howerd's History of England . Comedy Playhouse; Armchair 30 . Play Away . Winds Against My Soul . ITV's Black & Blue Farces . Soap Opera in Stockwell . ILEA Education Television . Paul Temple . Angels . The Young Ones . Nigerian Television Authority . The Mansion . The Honourable
 
RADIO & PRESENTING
BBC World Service "Calling Nigera", "This Sporting Life", many radio plays for both Domestic and World Service, including several years as a presenter of the magazine programme
 
Taiwo is an Officer of the Order of the Niger (a Nigerian National Honour equivalent of a Dame). She also a Fellow of the Society of Nigerian Theatre Artists (SONTA)