Ashley Zhangazha


Height: 5'10"
Colour of eyes: Brown
Colour of hair: Black
Singing voice: Tenor

Parts played at Guildhall School
Sir Reginald French in The Astonished Heart (dir: Wyn Jones)
Old Man in When Five Years Pass (dir: Roberto Romei)
Egeus in A Midsummer Night's Dream (dir: Douglas Rintoul)
Walter in Tipping The Velvet (dir: Katharine Rogers)
Edmund in King Lear (dir: Richard Twyman)
Sid Sorokin in The Pajama Game (dir: Wendy Allnutt)
Herald in Agamemnon (dir: Patsy Rodenburg)
Young Fashion in The Relapse (dir: Martin Connor)
Nicholas in One For The Road (dir: Richard Twyman)
Vershinin in Three Sisters (dir: Wyn Jones)
Tom Jones in Tom Jones (radio) (dir: Jane Morgan)

Professional experience
Justin Turner in Axon for BBC/Illumina Digital (dir: Rik Lander)
Young Lenny in Lenny Goes To Town for BBC (dir: John L Spencer)
Also appeared in Oliver! at London Palladium (dir: Sam Mendes), Whistle Down the Wind at the Aldwych (dir: Gail Edwards) , The Bill (ITV) and commercial for Vodaphone.

Other experience
Lilian Baylis Award (2009), appeared in Much Ado About Nothing at Hackney Empire with National Youth Theatre (dir: John Hoggarth), Assistant Director for Young Vic DOST Project at Clare Studio, drama workshop leader for NYT, BA Hons in Economics and Politics (Manchester).

Skills
Strong singer and dancer (tap, street, jazz, period, basic ballet), driving licence, Stage Combat Proficiency Certificate (Silver), piano (grade 7).

Native accent
London/RP

Dialects
Heightened RP, African, American (standard and Southern), Cockney, Manchester, West Indian, Yorkshire, good ear for accents.

Represented by United Agents, 12-26 Lexington Street, London, W1F 0LE Tel: 020 3214 0800