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.
Anni has worked in America, Europe, Africa, Australia and in many theatres around UK, including The National Theatre, including performances in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park on tour and at Watermill Theatre and as the lead in the award-winning Swim Aunty Swim at Belgrade Theatre in Coventry.
Anni works regularly as a Theatre Director and lectures on Drama at St. Mary’s University in Twickenham, Rose Bruford College, The Royal Central College of Speech and Drama, and at Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. She also directs, both at these universities and within theatre around the UK. Her poems and short stories have been published in various anthologies; her poem ‘Empty Cradle’ is published in the anthology Secret and Silent Tears, and three of her poems are in anthology Wild Imperfections, published by Penguin. Her poem Cutting appears in the script of play Bullet Hole, and her short story Empire Girl is published in Words and Women Anthology One.
Her TV credits includes: I Claudius, The Professionals, Grange Hill, The Bill, Casualty, Eastenders, Holby City, Us Girls, Judge John Deed, Kavanagh QC, and Rough Crossings. Her film credits include: Outland, Wondrous Oblivion, and Passion For Remembrance, directed by Isaac Julien.
An extract from her novel Breaking the Maafa Chain: A Novel won the Myriad Editions First Novel competition in 2018 and is featured in the New Daughters of Africa anthology edited by Margaret Busby.
Anni sits on several boards and is the Chair of the Board at Theatre Peckham.