​Jade Anouka

Biog

 

Jade is an actor and creative. She delivered a TED Talk titled Being Black, Being a Woman, Being ‘Other’ and is a published poet and playwright. She wrote, directed and starred in short film Her & Her for the BBC.

 

Theatre includes

 HEART (Minetta Lane Theatre, New York/ Paines Plough, Edinburgh Fringe/ Brixton House); Cock (West End); Julius Caesar (Donmar Theatre, Ian Charleston Award commendation); Henry IV; The Tempest (Donmar Warehouse/ St Ann’s Warehouse, New York); The Phlebotomist (Hampstead Theatre); Queen Margaret (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Cover My Tracks (The Old Vic); Hamlet (Shakespeare’s Globe, Ian Charleston Award commendation); CHEF (Edinburgh Fringe/ Soho Theatre) Moon On A Rainbow Shawl (The National Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe); Twelfth Night (York Theatre Royal)

 

Film includes

Ear for Eye; Last Christmas; Fisherman’s Friends: One and All; Fisherman’s Friends; Zebra Girl.

 

Television includes

DUNE:Prophecy; Fool Me Once; His Dark Materials; Cleaning Up; Turn Up Charlie; Trauma; Small Axe; The Drowning.   

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Jade is a 2017 Screen International star of tomorrow & ES rising star.

As a writer and poet she’s had work commissioned by Audible UK, Galaxy Chocolate, The Old Vic, The BBC and for Sam Smith’s song My Oasis and Gloria, their international arena tour.