Alessandro Babalola
Alessandro Babalola is an Olivier award winning actor, writer, director, poet, music producer, dramaturg and workshop leader of Nigerian descent, born and raised in Leyton, East London.
He studied acting at the Arts University of Bournemouth. He has performed in various Short films including ’Samantha’s Choice’ by Marie Helene Boyd which was selected for Cannes Film Festival 2016 and Harry Jackson’s critically acclaimed ‘Stop and Search’. Alessandro has also done various Off West End plays, Fringe Theatre productions and regional productions including a one man show ‘Jesse Owens Olympic Legacy’ (2012, 2016) funded by the Olympics committee and a national tour of ‘Othello’ with ’Sisata’ (2017). Alessandro has performed in two pantomimes with the Oxford playhouse theatre (2017 and 2018). In 2017 Alessandro Babalola landed 'FLESH & BONE’ ( National Theatre, Soho Theatre, Fringe First, Adelaide Fringe Best theatre and Critics Choice award ) with Unpolished Theatre company which toured across 2 years and won them an Olivier Award in 2019. His performance in ‘FLESH & BONE’ led to him being cast in season 3 of ’Top Boy’ on Netflix; a performance that had him placed on Evening Standard’s one to watch for 2020. Alessandro was then cast in another Netflix original called ‘Cursed’. He was also cast in ITV's detective series 'The Unforgotten' (2020), featured prominently in Guy Ritchie’s ‘Wrath Of Man’ (2021) and Nigerian Netflix film 'Blackmail’(2021).
Alessandro has written and directed 3 plays including; 'INVINCIBILLY’, which premiered at the Wandsworth Fringe festival in 2019 and 'The Perfect Companion' which first showed at the Pleasance Theatre in November 2019. He has produced numerous songs across various genres for an array of artists and has put on several music nights across East London. In addition to writing for and performing on the stage; Alessandro is Artist in Residence at Soho Theatre Walthamstow, on the board for Soho Theatre and is Co Chair of the Soho Theatre Walthamstow board.
Specialist Services:
Alessandro is our guest teacher for the Olivier group Elite Masterclass