Anni Domingo, Actress, Director, and Writer, works extensively in Radio, TV, Films and Theatre. She trained at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, later obtaining two more BA degrees and an MA at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. She has worked in America, Europe, Africa, Australia and in many theatres around UK including The National Theatre and has just finished performing in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park on tour and at Watermill Theatre and played the lead in the award-winning Swim Aunty Swim at Belgrade Theatre in Coventry. Anni works regularly as a Theatre Director. She currently lectures on Drama at St. Mary’s University in Twickenham, Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, Royal Central College and at Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. She also directs at these universities as well as theatre around the country. Her poems and short stories are published in various anthologies. The poem ‘Empty Cradle’ is published in the anthology Secret and Silent Tears and three of her poems are in another anthology Wild Imperfections, published by Penguin in November 202the 1. Her poem Cutting is int the play script of ‘Bullet Hole’. Her short story Empire Girl is published in Words and Women Anthology One.
TV includes: I Claudius, The Professionals; Grange Hill; The Bill; Casualty; Eastenders; Holby City; Us Girls; Judge John Deed; Kavanagh QC; Rough Crossings
Films include Outland with Sean Connery and Wondrous Oblivion with Delroy Lindo, Passion For Remembrance, directed by Isaac Julien.
An extract from her novel Breaking the Maafa Chain won the Myriad Editions First Novel competition in 2018 and is featured in the New Daughters of Africa (2019) anthology edited by Margaret Busby. Her first screenplay, ‘Blessed Assurance’ has just been filmed and will be out later this year. Her debut novel, Breaking the Maafa Chain, was published in September 2021, by Jacaranda Books, UK, by Pegasus Books, USA in 2022 and in Brazil 2024 (translated into Portuguese). Anni is now working on her second novel Ominira as part of her PhD at King College London.
Anni sits on several boards and is the Chair of Theatre Peckham’s Board of Trustees.