Anne Odeke

You have **TEN** - you heard me right legends, only **TEN** more chances to catch #PrincessEssex @the_globe 💖🇸🇹👸🏾🇬🇧✍🏾 We close 26th October and then that's it. Tickets from £5 (Standing) or top price tickets for £25 using the code ESSEX25 I CANNOT tell you the amount of 💗💗💗 gone into this show. I could never even begin to explain, but what I can say is support New Writing, support Essex girls 💄, support sticking two fingers up to stereotypes 🤜🏾💥🤛🏻, bring friends, bring family, bring babies, this is a play is for EVERYONE!!! That's because **theatre is for EVERYONE!** Down with the elite, down with the patriarch, down with the racists, down with staying silent! POWER TO THE PRINCESSES!!! 💪🏾👑🇬🇧👸🏾🇸🇹

If #Essex, a 1908 beauty pageant set in #Southend and @the_globe had a baby, I guess it would look like this... 😜 🎭👸🏾👑💐 Writer: Anne Odeke Director: @robinbelfield Dramaturg: @sedickenson Designer: @hayleygrindle Movement: @ingridmackinnon Composer: @simonslatermusic Voice: @tessdignan

SOUTHEND!!! LONDON!!! My incredible Sister-in-law to be @sophiegarrad , is doing a comedy stand up gig in Southend this Friday (8th May) at The Palace Theatre, London Road and then in London @lsqtheatre on 16th May. She's as hilarious as she is exhaustingly beautiful, AND has well over 60,000 followers on Instagram and growing... It's one hour. Starts at 8pm. Here's a link to ticket at Southend are £21... 🎟️ Link in my bio. Hurray for funny women! 🎤

Sheffield you have my 🧡⚽ The Crucible has been on my actor bucket list for a while so it's been a dream to tick (or should that be 'kick'⚽😜) it off the list. A post with enormous gratitude to all @sheffieldtheatres , especially the wonder woman and powerhouse that is @newmanejdirector and wonder-fella that is @scottlgraham To playwright, Tim Firth, for his vision ✒️, @graciesmart for making us all look so bloody fabulous, Ben, Flo, Ben (again), Megan, Rica, Nela, Joe, SG, Sarah, Dave and @andrewwilcoxtheatre 🎭 And of course to fellow team mates... @chanelwaddock @clair_norris @jjamierandall @joy_adeogun @ellielouiseleach @bettrysjones @cara_theobold @miss_charleywebb @jessicabaglow @pattanikrupa @quinetessential #LeahBrotherhead Here's to the last day of #TheLadiesFootballClub ⚽

Write a play for 130 young people - done it mate! ✅✍🏾 'The Wind in the Willows' is on at @mercurytheatrecolchester this Friday - Sunday (21st-23rd March). To say this lot are incredible would be the understatement of the year - so full of heart and humour 💚 Thank you to all the team behind it, especially Artistic Director @natasharickman , @itsfoz and Dir. @sbtstories . ** Spoiler alert - Toad ends up in Colchester zoo! 🤪🐯🐘🦓🦍🦒🦙🦡🦘🦚 Tickets in bio 🎟️ 🎟️ 🎟️ @thehaworthagency

No - YOU'RE CRYING! 😭😭🥰 Today is a very special day indeed. Today is what it's all about. ✍🏾 Today is the first time a SCHOOL will perform 'Princess Essex' for their school show! 💛🏖️👸🏾 It feels like a handing over of the baton. It's what the final scene of the play was always about. @southhampstead_drama Are going to absolutely smash it! I know they are! Break a leg this week to all those on stage, off and to all the staff! All of us at #PrincessEssex HQ, couldn't be prouder, and I have a feeling Princess Dinubolu would feel much the same. 🧡 @the_globe @thehaworthagency @thebwhagency @nickhernbooks @robinbelfield @priyapatelappleby @ellenhartleyvoice @bethan_fights @sedickensonstories @ingridmackinnon @simonslatermusic @hayleygrindle @isobelpellow @beckyaustin1981 @daniwhitfield13 @kit.fowler @farranttheatre @julesgreen98 @ashleighroses @ciaralkbaron @elliejames2203 @booparis @francescashoots @jcjcummins @jamieroseam @yasminhtaheri @alisonhalsteadofficial @lizziehopley @tyrekeleslie @simonstartin @matthewashforde @jamieroseam @eloisejsecker @nigelbarrettandlouisemari @sophie_mercell_fagon #SyakiraMoeladi @dreamwithjanai @shanieriley

It's the Press Night of your girls first ever panto! (Oh yes it is!) ✨✍🏾 Hurray for regional theatres! Hurray for Chester! What a magical ride it has been! 🧚🏾‍♀️ Just look at these beautiful images! 😍 Just look at these beautiful people! So talented, so funny, so full of heart (which is exactly what we need in the world right now, am I right or am I right?! 💛) 🎄 Enormous thanks to every single person at @storyhouselive - it's a magical theatre - if you haven't been, go treat yourself to a weekend away and pop in and have a wee drink and look around. Their moto is 'Our house is your house', and they mean it. Love, hugs and air kisses and all the thanks to the incredible 'Beauty and the Beast' team for all the care they have shown from Day 1. This includes... Cast: @thorichardson @lallyst @tomboyliving @viswanathan_pranav @mims_ob @katarina.zofia @itscaitdrake @danielbowskill_ @tom_pigram @poppy.afolabi @alfie.oco4 And Creatives: Director - @johnyoung91 Designer - @amyjanec00k MD - @rebeccaaplin Choreographer - @christophertendai Lighting - @aaronjdoots Sound - Kieran Lucas Fight/Intimacy Coordinator - @kaitlinhowardfightdirector Assistant Director - Clara Carson Producer - @amy_tulley Creative Director - @suzie81 The biggest thanks of all goes to @helenredcliffe for inviting me. She's a legend. Do get to know her theatre world if you already don't, because she's a powerhouse of a human and one of the good eggs in our theatre world, you know? We need her and her like. Merry Christmas one and all! No go fly team #B&TB🎄

Very proud to be made a Mountview Ambassador amongst some absolute heroes of mine and friends 🌟 I absolutely loved doing my MA Acting there and owe the school dearly, particularly @truetruesmith and Vicky Woodward. @mountviewldn Mountview: Meet the industry professionals dedicated to inspiring and empowering the next generation of creative talent. Our Ambassadors come from diverse backgrounds across the arts and are united by one mission: empowering students - both onstage and backstage - to reach their full potential and pursue their future careers with confidence. Julie Atherton Rachel Bagshaw Lord Brendan Barber Peter Bennett-Jones CBE Andrew Berlin Marina Caldarone Will Close Oscar Conlon-Morrey Matthew Dunster Sean Green Beth Hinton-Lever Amanda Holden Alison King Leigh Lawson Dame Twiggy Lawson Simon HJ Lupini Cllr Portia Mwangangye Arian Nik Anne Odeke Cleve September Johnson Situ Sharon Small Amy Trigg Jack Wolfe

Still absolutely riding high on cloud 9 from the last 24 hours... The WAVE of 💗, congratulations and messages that have made me ball, have been beyond touching. 🥹 Thank you again @bbtas and to you all. And of course to the Princess Essex fam. Special shout out also to fellow nominees @theniceboulder and #NtombizodwaNyoni And to powerhouses @lucie_lutte and CEO of @brxhousetheatre Celia Barker for presenting the award and championing playwrights. ✍🏾 Also to @thehaworthagency @thebwhagency and @nickhernbooks Hugs to everyone, juicy ones - A x #PrincessEssex @the_globe

A huge congratulations to @anne.odeke your Best Playwright Award Winner 🏆✨ This award was proudly sponsored by @brxhousetheatre in association with ‘The Writers Room’ #BBTA2025 #BlackBritishTheatre

What a night! 'BEST PLAYWRIGHT'?! Go home awards, you're drunk! 😆 * From the bottom of my 💗 THANK YOU @thebbtas , to all who voted, to the panel, to the cast and creatives of #PrincessEssex, to my partner Jon, my family, friends, all at @the_globe , our audiences and all who have sent love along the way. Special shout out also to my fellow nominees, and to the incredibly talented @ingridmackinnon who won Best Movement/Choreographer for #PrincessEssex, to @tyrekeleslie ; a young, up and coming actor who was nominated for 'Best Supporting Male' for his part in the show and of course, to the most incredible director and dear friend @robinbelfield for his nomination for 'Best Director'. And of course, this is for Princess Dinubolu. 👑👸🏾🏖️ Truly this award means more than you'll ever know. Thank you again to all. Love Anne x

🏆BEST FEMALE LEAD ACTOR IN A PLAY AWARD NOMINEES🏆 We are so glad to announce that this award will be sponsored by @lamdadrama Anne Odeke: Princess Essex, Shakespeare’s Globe @anne.odeke Beverley Knight: Marie & Rosetta, The Rose Theatre @beverleyknight Suzanne Packer: The Woman of Llanrumney, Theatre Royal Stratford East #SuzannePacker This year the BBTA’s return with @atg_tickets as lead sponsor, in partnership with @moulinmusicaluk and @globalcreatures , with thanks to @playfulprods #BBTA2025 #UKTheatre #BlackBritishTheatreAwards