TAIWO AJAI LYCETT, OON, Fellow (SONTA)   

ACTRESS

EQUITY: M00068047  

EYES: Brown.  HAIR: Black.  HEIGHT: 5’3”.
AGE: 66.

Date Of Birth: 3 February 1941

EDUCATION:
HND Business Studies.

TRAINING:
The Guildhall School of Music & Drama
City Literary Institute
Dance Centre, Floral Street
Actors Studio

PRESENTING:
BBC World Service “CALLING NIGERIA”
This Sporting Life

RADIO:
Several Radio Plays for both Domestic and World Service

JOURNALISM:
Editor, Africa Woman (international political, social & economic journal)
Associate Editor, Africa Journal (international political, economic social magazine
Sunday Times, Nigeria
Holtnews  (House Journal for John Holt PLC, Nigeria)
JPN News (Corporate journal for Johnson Products of Nigeria)

TELEVISION:
BBC’s Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘em
Frankie Howard’s History of England
Comedy Playhouse; Armchair 30
Play Away
ITV’s Black & Blue Farces
Soap Opera in Stockwell
ILEA Education Television
COI

FILMS:
A Warm December, directed by Sidney Poitier
Nigeria Television Authority:
The Mansion; The Young Ones; Winds against My Soul; The Honourable
Eyo Fancy etc.

THEATRE:
The Royal Court Theatre: 
The Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka
Parcel Post by Yemi Ajibade

The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden:
Wagner’s Tannhauser:  Dancer

The Playroom Theatre Club, Soho:
The Refusal by Mario Fratti

The Gaiety Theatre:
Murderous Angels by Conor Cruise O’Brien at 1971 Dublin Theatre Festival

The Traverse Theatre:
C P Taylor’s The Black & White Minstrels
Stanley Eveling’s Caravaggio Buddy, with Tom Conti, Alan Howard, Patty Love, Elizabeth Hughes and Ian Holm at the 1972 Edinburgh International  Festival

The Hampstead Theatre Club:
The Black & White Minstrels

The Bristol Old Vic:
A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams
With Kate Nelligan and Rowena Cooper

Mercury Theatre Colchester:
Jean Genet’s The Maids

The Palace Theatre, Westcliffe:
National Health by Peter Nichols.

The Almeida Theatre:
Critical Mass, directed by Emma Bernard and Composer Orlando Gough

The National Theatre Lagos, Nigeria
The Divorce by Wale Ogunyemi
The Vogue by Soji Simpson
Death & The King’s Horsemen by Wole Soyinka

PEC Repertory Theatre:
J P Clark’s The Year of the Goat
Aluta Continua
Okot P’Bitek’s Song of Lawino

MUSON  CENTRE
Shylock by Arnold Wesker

STAGE CREDIT:
Nigerian-born actress, trained at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She made her stage debut at The Royal Court Theatre, in Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel, appearing there again in 1976, in Parcel Post, by Yemi Ajibade; at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as a Dancer, in Wagner’s Tannhauser; in Mario Fratti’s The Refusal at The Playroom Theatre Club, Soho. Her other stage appearances include 1971 Dublin Theatre Festival’s Conor Cruise O’Brien’s Murderous Angels at The Gaiety Theatre; the 1972 Edinburgh International Festival, in C P Taylor’s The Black & White Minstrels and Stanley Eveling’s Caravaggio Buddy at The Traverse Theatre, with Tom Conti, Alan Howard, Patty Love, Elizabeth Hughes and Ian Holm; The Hampstead Theatre Club in the Black & White Minstrels; The Bristol Old Vic with Kate Nelligan and Rowena Cooper in A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams; in Colchester’s Mercury Theatre’s Jean Genet’s The Maids; The Palace Theatre, Westcliffe; and in  Peter Nichol’s, The National Health. Taiwo has also worked abroad at The National Theatre Lagos, Nigeria, appearing as the female lead in Wale Ogunyemi’s The Divorce; Soji Simpson’s The Vogue; Wole Soyinka’s Death & The King’s Horsemen; J P Clark’s The Year of the Goat; Aluta Continua; Okot P’Bitek’s Song of Lawino; and in Shylock by Arnold Wesker.
Taiwo’s most recent stage appearance was in July 2007 in The Almeida Opera’s, Critical Mass, directed by Emma Bernard and Composer Orlando Gough at the Almeida Theatre, Islington.

TELEVISION CREDIT:
BBC’s Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em; Frankie Howard’s History of England; Comedy Playhouse; Armchair 30; Play Away; ITV’s Black & Blue Farces; Soap Opera in Stockwell; ILEA Education Television; COI; Soaps include, Paul Temple; General Hospital; Angels; and for Nigeria Television Authority: The Mansion; The Young Ones; Winds Against My Soul; The Honourable; Eyo Fancy etc.
FILMS; appearances include Sidney Poitier’s A Warm December.
RADIO: Taiwo has appeared in many BBC Radio Drama productions for domestic and the World Service, including for several years as a presenter of the magazine programme BBC CALLING NIGERIA.

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