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News 2024

MARCH
FURIES, a new French TV series that I am in, is now out on Netflix! I only have a small part in episode 2, and just for fun, here is a link to a short extract of my audition tape that got me the job: Link

JANUARY
I had the pleasure to do some French coaching with the BBC singers at the BBC ’s Maida Vale Studios. The choir recorded a collection of French songs called ‘Six Chansons’ by Paul Hindemith. I was absolutely blown away by their sound and expertise.

JANUARY
I had wonderful time working as a French coach on a production of Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Lithuanian National Opera in Vilnius.

News 2023

SEPTEMBER
I've recently been involved in a project showcasing what life is like as a French person living in the UK. This campaign is showing in France to encourage French people to come and live, study and work in the UK. The shooting took place at the Royal Opera House. It was fun

MAY
On the set at the Royal Opera House filming an advert for The Great Campaign. The aim is to inspire French people to collaborate, visit, study, live, work and do business in the U.K.

FEBRUARY
So excited to share my new showreel.

News 2022

SEPTEMBER
So excited to be working as a French language coach at The Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen.

MAY-JUNE
I really enjoyed to be back on stage and to reprise the role of Angelo in CONFINI at the Ravena’s Theatre Festival in Italy and at the Théâtre National du Luxembourg.

JANUARY
I am delighted to have joined as a French Language coach the staff of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. I am loving working with their singers.

News 2021

SEPTEMBER
The new season of the BBC drama Silent Witness is now out. I am playing reverend Kanu in episodes 5 and 6.

AUGUST
I had so much fun taking part in Liam Payne’s upbeat video for his new feel-good single Sunshine - which features in upcoming animation film Ron’s Gone Wrong.

JUNE - JULY
Delighted to be part of this new Italian and Luxembourgish theatre production called CONFINI which means ‘borders’.
In this fantastic future,  the European Union will end up collapsing. Only the space agency will decide to save a handful of women and men, obviously the wealthiest, by taking them aboard a spacecraft to a new planet, where humanity will establish a new civilization.
Rehearsals in June at Teatro della Tosse in Genoa and a tour will follow in Italy, Izola (Slovenia) and Luxembourg. I look forward to be playing the part of Angelo.

MAY - JUNE
THE CAT IN (re)BOOTS has been selected at the Brighton Fringe and will be broadcasted by Living Record from May 28th to June 27th. I really enjoyed playing The Cat.

FEBRUARY
Fantastic news. Fear the Short film I did is now part of the official selection for The North Europe International Film Festival 2021 and the Manchester LIFT OFF Film Festival 2021! It tells the true story of André (me), a migrant of African descent who just arrives in the port of Dover, U.K and has nowhere to spend the night.

NEWS 2020

NOVEMBER / DECEMBER
So excited to have been part of this new online production of Puss in Boots @Exchange Theatre. Playing Puss was a lot of fun. Making of THE CAT IN (RE)BOOTS.

OCTOBER
So pleased to be appearing as Reverend Kanu in the new season of the BBC drama Silent Witness that will be aired in 2021.

JULY
Super excited to start my online French coaching for opera & classical singers. Click here for more info.

FEBRUARY
I thoroughly enjoyed working as a French language coach on the production of Carmen at the Welsh National Opera. It was such a great experience.

JANUARY
I look forward to be working as a French language coach at the WNO on their new production of Carmen.

NEWS 2019

NOVEMBER
I took part in a short film, FEAR. It tells the true story of André (me), a migrant of African descent who just arrives in the port of Dover, U.K and has nowhere to spend the night. The premiere took place at The Rio Cinema in London.

AUGUST
Photo shoot in the South of France. Photographer Patrice Texier. See more pictures.

APRIL / MAY
I resumed touring with Peter Brook’s play The Prisoner. The tour includes performances in Switzerland, Poland, Russia and Germany.

MARCH
I have been nominated for the Arts and Media category at the Black British Business Awards that will take place in London in October. The awards programme recognises, rewards and celebrates exceptional performance and outstanding achievements of black people in businesses operating in the U.K.

MARCH
It was such a pleasure to perform with this talented group of Mexican singers in a recital that took place in the Museo José Luis Cuevas in Mexico City.

MARCH
I was invited as a French language coach to do a masterclass on French pronunciation with opera singers in Mexico City. Our main focus was on French melodie and arias.

FEBRUARY
I performed my second concert of the year at The University of Campeche (Yucatan, Mexico).

FEBRUARY
Interview on Radio Universidad on my for my concert Some Enchanted Evening in Campeche (Mexico).

FEBRUARY
I am pleased to announce that the tv series I did last year can now be seen on NETFLIX. I am appearing in Episode 2.

JANUARY
I was extremely elated to give my first concert of the year in Mexico City, singing musical theatre songs from The Lion King, Show Boat, South Pacific, Crazy For You, The Wiz…etc.

NEWS 2018

DECEMBER
Bill Murray attended a performance of The Prisoner at The Theatre For a New Audience in New York City. He invited us for dinner afterwards. What an evening!

DECEMBER
Hiran Abeysekera as Mavuso & Hervé Goffings as Ezekiel in Peter Brook’s The Prisoner at the Theatre for a New Audience in New York. Photographer: Joan Marcus.

NOVEMBER
We started the performance at The Yale Repertory theatre. Here are some links to reviews:
- Yale Daily News
- New Haven Register
- Hartford Courant

OCTOBER
I just finished a two week run of The Prisoner at the Teatro Vittoria in Rome. It was a fantastic way to finish the European tour of The Prisoner.

SEPTEMBER
Meeting with Ralph Fienes in the corridor of The National Theatre. Ralph performing in Cleopatra and me in The Prisoner.

SEPTEMBER
I have started the three week run as Ezechiel in The Prisoner at The National Theatre.

SEPTEMBER
Last year I got my first part in the BBC 2/Netflix series Black Earth Rising starring Michaela Coel, John Goodman and Harriet Walter. I appeared in the second episode as a hitman. TRAILER.

AUGUST
First performance as Ezechiel in The Prisoner. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Guardian.
Edinburgh International Festival. The Royal Lyceum Theatre.

AUGUST
International cast of The Prisoner. Rehearsals took place at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris. From left to right:
Hiran Abeysekera (Sri Lanka), me, Donald Sumpter ( as seen of Game of Thrones ), Kalieaswari Srinivasan (seen in Dheepan which won the Palme d'Or at the International Film Festival,Cannes 2015) and Omar Silva (Mexico).

JULY
I have been cast as Ezekiel in The Prisoner, a play written and directed by theatre director Peter Brook & Marie-Hélène Estienne. International tour will take place in Europe and North America.

APRIL
The Ballerina, a great play for which I played a journalist (voice-over).

MARCH
I was invited as a French language coach to do a masterclass on French pronunciation with opera singers in Mexico City. Our main focus was on French melodie and arias.

NEWS 2017

NOVEMBER - DECEMBER
Performing as Caliban in this new French version of Shakespeare's La Tempête at the Théâtre de Privas, France. TRAILER.

SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER
Rehearsals for Shakespeare’s La Tempête. Picture of Stephano and Caliban in action.

AUGUST
I took part in a short film, FEAR. Written and directed by Stephan Erdman and produced by Mungo Films, it tells the true story of André, a migrant of African descent who just arrives in the port of Dover, U.K and has nowhere to spend the night.

JULY
I had a great time shooting this commercial for the antiperspirant Soft & Gentle at the East London studios. It is shown on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. See the ad.

MAY
I took part in an interesting video project called The Other Solos. It is a series of Shakespeare monologues that deal with issues of identity, and migration. performed by actors whose mother tongue is not English. To see the video please click here.

APRIL - JULY
I really enjoyed performing my One-Man Show HERVÉ in the UK and Paris. To see the trailer please click here.

MARCH
I was thrilled to be cast as Caliban in a new French translation of Shakespeare’s La Tempête.

FEBRUARY
I joined the China Plate's Optimists producer training course, which tackles the lack of diversity amongst theatre-makers and producers in the independent theatre sector.