Akiya Henry

Akiya Henry has previously acted in the Bristol Old Vic production Swallows and Amazons, for which she appeared in West End and on a national tour. Her other theater work includes The Colored Museum (Talawa); Mottled Lines (Orange Tree); Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V (RSC); The Beggars Opera, Hello Dolly, The T pest (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre); Varjak Paw (The Opera Group); Carmen Jones (Southbank Centre); Safe (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Coriolanus (Shakespeare's Globe); The Enchanted Pig (Young Vic/Opera Group); Under the Black Flag, Coram Boy, Anything Goes, Love's Labours Lost (National Theatre); Ain't Misbehavin' (Sheffield Crucible); Just So, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Chichester Festival Theatre); Skellig (Young Vic); Bintou (Arcola); The Singing Group (Chelsea Theatre); Closer to Heaven (Really Useful Groups); Into the Woods (NYMT). Her film work includes Rabbit Fever, The Best Man, and Calcium Kid, and her television appearances include Silent Witness, Captain Mack, Casualty and Little Britain. Her radio work includes One Two Zoo, Reality Check, The Ballad of Frankie Banks. Current as of March 2014