2021
Search results
As an actor, Kwei-Armah is probably best known for playing paramedic Finlay Newton in the BBC medical drama Casualty from 1999 until 2004. He served as the chancellor of the University of the Arts London from 2011 to 2015.
Kwame Kwei-Armah is British actor, playwright, director and broadcaster. In 2018 he was made Artistic Director of the Young Vic, where he has directed Twelfth Night and Tree.
Kwame Kwei-Armah was born on 24 March 1967 in Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Cutthroat Island (1995), Breaking (2022) and Mission Hill.
Jan 10, 2023 · The artistic director of London's Young Vic is directing The Collaboration and producing Death of a Salesman in New York, and he's only getting started.
Feb 8, 2024 · Young Vic artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah is standing down with a warning that “13 years of standstill funding” for theatres threatens the “pipeline of talent” bringing new actors, writers...
Feb 8, 2024 · Playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah has announced he will be stepping down as artistic director of the Young Vic theatre after six years in the role.
Apr 20, 2018 · On the first real day of spring, Kwame Kwei-Armah, the new artistic director of London’s Young Vic, is far from his post. A few days before he announces his first season of plays,...
Dec 10, 2018 · Trueman rates Kwei-Armah as “an extraordinary cultural leader, and we need them in theatre,” but says the jury is still out on his artistic programme. He has qualms about whether it will breach “artistic frontiers in a way we are used to seeing at the Young Vic.”.
On Radio 4's This Cultural Life, interviewer John Wilson speaks to Kwame Kwei-Armah, Artistic Director of The Young Vic theatre. Kwei-Armah’s career has seen him transform from musician, to...
‘I am a hard-wired optimist,” says Kwame Kwei-Armah, the actor turned playwright turned artistic director of the Young Vic. That’s a handy quality to have, perhaps a vital one, when theatres...
