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NYASHA HATENDI

Height: 6 Feet 1 Inches
Hair: Black
Eyes: Dark Brown

Nationality: Ameican/Zimbabwe
Natural Accent: (English) RP

Theatre Whilst At RADA:

Character
Mitch
Richard, Duke of Gloucester/Tyrell
Sean, wise elderly dread
A Pig-like-man/Fury
Sebastian/Snuffe
Mirabelle
The Blind Man
Tal
Captain Hardy, The Colonel
Goff
Panisse
Creon

Production
A Streetcar Named Desire
Richard III
Time for John
Caryl Churchill project
The Atheist’s Tragedy
The Way of the World
Carve Up
Women of Troy
Journey's End
The Schoolmistress
Marius
Installation 496

Director
Jennie Buckman
John Beschizza
William Gaskill
Lolly Susi
Brigid Panet
Gregory de Polnay
William Gaskill
Deborah Paige
Ellis Jones
William Gaskill
Joseph Blatchley
Nona Shepphard


Special Skills

Languages – French, an understanding of Shona; piano; singing; most sports including horse riding; stage fighting; dance – Elizabethan, period dance, Flamenco, jazz; accents – RP, general American, deep Southern, New York, Plantation Southern, Nigerian, Ghanaian, Shona, Afrikaans, Cockney, Liverpool; Jamaican; West Indian; Barbados; Irish.

Other Experience
Malvolio in Twelfth Night; Bobby in David Mamet’s American Buffalo; Private Brutal in Kassandra by Ivo Stourton; Chorus/Lucifer in Dr Faust; David Garrick in An Actor’s Nightmare; King David in Peter Schaffer’s Yonadab.

Special Interests
Film and film making (short course NYFA); theatre, writing – script writing, poetry, creative writing; directing; ancient history; philosophy; all types of music; most sports including – squash, tennis, golf, cricket, Tai Chi, swimming; cooking; wine; world politics.

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