Wabriya King

For the National:

Wabriya King is a dramatherapist, actress and creative facilitator.

Training

Wabriya King trained at Roehampton University and the Oxford School of Drama.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: Alterations, Blues for an Alabama Sky and Rockets and Blue Lights

In London’s West End: Elektra, Barcelona, Slave Play, Romeo & Juliet, Cabaret, Hamilton, Moulin Rouge and MJ The Musical

Other theatre includes: Cowbois, Falkland Sound, The Empress and Julius Caesar for the RSC; Shifters (also West End), Red Pitch (also West End), My Father’s Fable, The Cord and August in England at the Bush; A Strange Loop at the Barbican; Otherland, Roots, Look Back in Anger, King Lear, Alma Mater, Romeo & Juliet and Secret Life of Bees at the Almeida; The Trials and Clyde’s at the Donmar; For Black Boys… at New Diorama, the Royal Court and in the West End; School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play at the Lyric Hammersmith; Just for One Day at the Old Vic; Now, I See, Beautiful Thing and Tambo & Bones at Stratford East; Samuel Takes a Break and The Flea at Hackney Yard; Bootycandy at the Gate; Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead for Complicité; Blue at ENO; Further than the Furthest Thing at the Young Vic; Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World at The Other Palace and on UK tour; Becoming Nancy at Birmingham Rep; Revealed at the Belgrade, Coventry; SHED: Exploded View at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; Romeo & Juliet for Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures; and Family Tree for Actors Touring Company

Film

Empire of Light and Chevalier

(Updated February 2025)