My White Best Friend - North // Casting Announcement
Luke Barnes
Luke is a writer and actor. Highlights include: Freedom Project (Leeds Playhouse, 2021), The Jumper Factory (The Young Vic Theatre, 2019), The Sad Club (National Theatre, 2019), All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (The Bush Theatre/ Paines Plough Roundabout, 2017-2018), No One Will & Tell Me How To Start A Revolution (Hampstead Theatre, 2017)
Ade Ajibade
Ade Ajibade, was born and raised in Liverpool. She is a Black British actress who has trained with 20 Stories High, The Liverpool Theatre School Academy and ActUpNorth. Ade has performed on stage, as well as being a 2x winner of Monologue Slam Manchester. Whilst making appearances in Jimmy McGovern’s ‘Anthony’ and 'Moving on' BBC One. Her other credits include a guest lead in BBC ‘Doctors’.
Siu Hun Li
Siu Hun Li is an Actor/Writer/Filmaker. He trained at RADA graduating in 2008. He has since worked in theatre TV film radio and voice over. Recent credits include Fortune Cookies (Screen Northants) Anthony/ Traces (s2) (BBC) Chimerica (Channel 4). His short film Sandwich which he wrote was shown at BFI Southbank and won the filming East award in 2019. He recently finished filming on the sequel Sandwich 2 (Machete 2 Wasabi)
Ubah Egal
Ubah most recently appeared as Odette in the rehearsed reading of I am Leah at the Peopling the Place festival. She has worked with the Donmar and Kiln theatre as well as various cross platform arts projects. She is an alumni of Identity School of Acting. Ubah works with the Somali Cultural centre in Camden (London) sharing Somali arts and culture.
Laura Dos Santos
Laura trained at Lamda and was part of the Liverpool Everyman Rep Company including The Sum, Romeo and Juliet, and Conquest of the South Pole. Her television credits include: Little Boy Blue, Holby City, Doctor Who, Wallander, Bad Girls and Fingersmith.
Sarah Leatherbarrow
Sarah’s credits include South Pacific (National Theatre, London); Judge John Deed (BBC); Miss Saigon (Drury Lane, West End); The B@it (Channel 4) and Bombay Dreams (Victoria Palace, West End) .
Jodie McNee
Jodie’s credits include Adult Children (Donmar Warehouse); Unprecedented: Fear Fatigue & Faustus: That Damned Woman (Headlong); Venice Preserved (RSC); Anatomy of a Suicide (Royal Court); The Night Watch & Hamlet (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Twelfth Night (Liverpool Everyman)
Darci Shaw
Darci had her breakout film debut in 2019 playing young Judy Garland in the Oscar-winning feature JUDY. Most recently she starred in the Netflix series “The Irregulars” alongside Henry Lloyd-Hughes, and will next be seen opposite Matthew Goode and Phoebe Dynevor in the feature The Colour Room for director Claire McCarthy.
Maxine Peake
Maxine’s credits include Hamlet, Miss Julie, Happy Days (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Loyalty (Hampstead); On the Third Day, Miss Julie (West End); Robin Hood, Luther, The Relapse, The Cherry Orchard (National) Her TV credits include Dinnerladies, Shameless, Silk, The Village and Black Mirror.