Ayesha Casely-Hayford: actress and dancer
Ballet and tap by Ayesha Casely-Hayford
It’s been an interesting experience performing as part of HIV Voices, creating a piece but only performing it for an evening then having weeks and months in between performing it again. Keeping going. An event like HIV Voices, it hasn’t exploded, like the HIV being talked about when I was younger, that surrounded Freddy Mercury’s […]
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 […]
4th December saw the launch of Hugh Wyld’s HIV Voices Hosted by a charity in London, Positive East, we had an evening of discussion and performance. Hugh had a conversation with one of the trustees of the Terrence Higgins Trust, Ant Babajee and I danced to the beat of Hatty Carmen’s drum, including smacking my […]
A Time To Speak – Hugh Wyld’s project to get people talking about HIV and AIDS – had its first theatre stage appearance on 8th October 2014. We performed at the LOST Theatre to a wonderful audience who we hope left inspired and talking about what they had seen. A group of us wrote and […]
Last night, 4th July 2014, we celebrated Independence Day at Morley College. It was combined with the annual Morley College summer performance show – “Dance Fusion”. The tradition of summer dance shows at Morley College goes way way back. The earliest record is of dance performances on the stage at Morley in 1935. We had […]
Creating my own theatre work for solo performance is intense, random and liberating. The Lost Theatre in Vauxhall is giving me a stage to do it on. With a group of others also working on their own solo pieces we are creating our work via workshops with director Colin Watkeys. Colin adopts my favourite directorial […]
On 8th October 2014 at The LOST Theatre in Vauxhall… I’m taking part in the next stages of Hugh Wyld’s exciting and important project to raise awareness and open discussion about HIV in people’s lives today. The project is called “A Time To Speak”. With a small group of actors and writers, “A Time to […]
“The Gossip” is a collection of short plays inspired by industry experiences produced by Writers Avenue and performed at the Soho Theatre.
It’s been a bitsy “what’s happening now?” week. Our short film “Silent Disco” unfortunately didn’t make the shortlist for the Virgin Media Shorts and I had some auditions cancelled due to re-scheduled filming dates. On more active news, the new school term at Morley College has started so my tap and ballet lessons begin again. […]
