Ako Mitchell

Theatre includes: Evan in Sweat (Glasgow Citizens Theatre / Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Tonton Julian in Once on this Island (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Dracula in Dracapella (The Park Theatre); Mr Duvall in Mean Girls (Savoy Theatre – Original West End Cast); Max Detweiler in Sound of Music (Chichester Festival Theatre); Kweku in Black Superhero (Royal Court); Roy Johnson in The Light in the Piazza In Concert (Alexandra Palace); Mister in The Color Purple (Leicester Curve & Birmingham Hippodrome UK tour); The Arbiter in Chess (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Bus/Dryer in Caroline, Or Change (Minerva Theatre and West End); Larry in Indecent Proposal, Grey Gardens (Southwark Playhouse); Preacher in Bonnie & Clyde (West End); Bob Barker in Bernstein’s Wonderful Town (Opera Holland Park); Raymond in Far From Heaven (MTFest 2021); Europa Projekt Season: Europeana and Peer Gynt (RSC); Nicely-Nicely Johnson in Guys and Dolls, Orin the Dentist in Little Shop of Horrors (Manchester Royal Exchange); Eddie in The Wild Party (The Other Palace); Coalhouse in Ragtime (Charing Cross Theatre); Reggie in The Trial of Jane Fonda, Klook in Klook’s Last Stand (Park Theatre); Misanthropes (Old Vic New Voices); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Royal Festival Hall); Gabriel in Fences (Duchess Theatre West End); Mitch in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Donmar Warehouse); Sweaty Eddie in Sister Act (London Palladium – Original West End Cast); Mufasa in The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre West End); The Mystery Plays (Bath Music Festival); Broadway in the Shadows (Luxembourg National Theatre/Arcola Theatre).

Television includes: FBI: International, Nova, NBC’s The Grinch That Stole Christmas, Hilda, Gameface, Avenue 5, Corpse Talk, Best & Bester, Silent Witness, Berlin Station, Strangest Weather on Earth.

Radio includes: Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures (Big Finish); The Great Gatsby (BBC Radio 3); The Man Who Fell to Earth (B BC Radio 4); Mueller: Trump Tower Moscow (BBC Radio 4)and many audiobooks including the Alex Cross novels.

Films include: Anxious People, Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Daddy’s Head, The Lion vs The Little People, Lake Placid: The Final Chapter, Johnny English Strikes Again. He directed and co-wrote the short ‘I’m In the Corner with the Bluebells’ (Toronto International Film Festival Selection and Mica Film Festival (Best Director Award) and wrote and directed ‘I Promise’ (Cineuropa Shorts/Filminute Audience Award).