Ayesha Casely-Hayford | Actress
An amazing last few months! Shooting my second feature film with Tony Oldham and Blackstone Valentine, discovering Notting Hill Carnival. Freedom, Jumping Up with Mas With A Difference and the Eclipse Band, costumes beautifully made by Flora Nabena. So much pride and love in these two Carnival days. And rum (spot the flasks). Ayesha […]
Brixton – a changing face. It’s good, it’s bad. I was born in South London, Battersea started out school in Soho but we later moved to Kent (slightly different, less red lights). I returned to London after uni and lived all around finally ending up back in South London, Brixton. It’s felt like home but recently […]
CARNIVAL! Notting Hill Carnival will be here soon. Apart from going along to watch with mates over the years, Carnival, is not something I know much about. We don’t celebrate it in Ghana, I don’t really understand it. SO I am doing it! This year, I have been invited to learn about Carnival and experience it properly […]
Ayesha Casely-Hayford | Actress blog The Global Health Media Project. A new day. It is what we make of it. Those first flickers of waking can shake us, as we remember a dream, the past, our worries. But then, the day has begun and we have to decide how to proceed. One morning I woke […]
When I look at you face to face and share my stories, it confirms I am not alone. I have been creating solo shows since I left drama school in 2012. Going to a relatively unknown drama school, without accreditation (and which has since shut down), has given me wings of opportunity. The syllabus was […]
Ayesha Casely-Hayford | Actress blog My Granny Becky. My mum’s mum. A big warm laugh and a warrior’s strength. I love her so much that as a child, I took her name. I wanted to be as close to her as possible. My granny Becky is the grandparent I have always been closest too. She […]
Ayesha Casely-Hayford | actress blog Tuesday 2nd June! The ACT FOR CHANGE Project had its 2nd event – this time even bigger than before – we were at The National Theatre – sold out, star-studded. A massive amount of passion and energy filled the theatre. At times so emotional, particularly as Jenny Sealey of Graeae […]
Ayesha Casely-Hayford | Voice Artist blog “Thomas Pocklington Trust offers people who are blind or have sight loss the support they require to lead an independent life, based on their individual requirements”. Where do I start with never taking for granted the privilege of health? We don’t know how blessed and fortunate we are until we […]
Ayesha Casely-Hayford | Actress blog Trust – if you don’t have trust, you have nothing. If you don’t have trust it just won’t work. It is understandable that people like to keep working with people that they know and trust. We like to recruit from a college or uni that we are familiar with, from […]
With You Always is a new play by BBC award-winning playwright Mark Ralph-Bowman. Ayesha Casely-Hayford | blog John Sailsman (actor, writer, director) is directing us. I’ve never worked with Mark, John or any of the cast for that matter so this is another exciting and new adventure. With You Always looks at western development investment […]
