Student & graduate profiles

Bola Akeju

BA in Acting Degree (H Level)

Year of graduation 2021
Spotlight

Hermia / Demetrius / Peaseblossom
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare for Young Audiences) directed by Funlola Olufunwa
Julia
Two Gentlemen of Verona (course project) directed by Tony Bell

Deianeira
Women of Trachis (course project) directed by Jonathan Humphries
Lady Lucy
The Bassett Table (course project) directed by Naeem Hayat and Edward Kemp

Voice reel - Modern

Voice reel - Prose

Voice reel - Shakespeare

Accents: RP, General American, Birmingham, Standard French, Jamaican, Black South African

Singing: Alto

Dance: Contemporary, commercial, street, period

Languages: Spanish (intermediate), Yoruba (advanced), Korean (basic)

Other skills: Skateboarding, photography and video editing, hair styling for black women, interactive media, stage combat (armed and unarmed)

Theatre
Sephy, Noughts and Crosses, dir. Sue Tordoff (East 15 production)

Sister, Shipwrecked, dir. Simon Stephens (The BRIT School)

Poet and Emsemble, Sharing stages, Chickenshed