Lola May

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Lola May

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Lola May can be seen in the Feature Film (Netflix) ‘His House’, Winner of the 2021 Debut - British Writer, Director or Producer BAFTA Award and Nominated for Best British Film.

She is currently playing in the Tall Stories’ Olivier Award-nominated Children’s Show - The Smeds and The Smoos - https://tallstories.org.uk/the-smeds-and-the-smoos/; also playing at Kids Fest Hong Kong 2025 https://www.kidsfest.com.hk/shows/2025/show01.asp.

2020 WRPN Woman's International Film Festival
Winner, Exceptional Merit, Lead Actress for Fir (Feature Film)

BBC Radio Norman Beaton Semi-Finalist, 2018

Lola May
Vita as Open in Filmmakers
Actor•22-32 years•British •
Place of residence Greater London (GB), Bath and North East Somerset (GB)
Genderfemale
Housing optionsMaryland (US)
Eye colorbrown
Hair colorblack
Height (cm)165
LanguagesEnglish
DialectsAmerican-Southern StatesAmerican-StandardCockneyEnglish-StandardHeightened RPMulticultural London English (MLE)NorthernRP(native dialect)
AccentsFrench
SportSwimmingHorse ridingRoller skating
DanceContemporary dance
PitchSoprano, Mezzo-soprano
SingingA cappellaJazzPop
Special skillsImprovisation
Training

Nigerian National Youth Theatre
University of Bath
King’s College London
Ivanna Chubbuck Acting Technique

Film
2022
A Story Told Through Hands (Short film)
Nurse
Jane Davis National Film and Television School(NFTS)
2020
His House (Feature film)
Nyagak’s Mother
Remi Weekes New Regency Pictures/BBC Films/Starchild Pictures
2019
#Haters (Short film)
Ella
Tristan Shepherd Take Cover Films/Odd Eyes
2018
Fir (Feature film)
Celeste (Lead)
Francesco Bori I Witnessed Images
2018
Ambigram (Short film)
Hestia
Rikki Henry NuWave Pictures
2017
Nancy (Feature film)
Top Soprano Vocals (Soundtrack)
Christina Choe Mental Pictures/EON Productions
2017
Fear (Short film)
Camille
Stephan Erdman Mungos Films
2017
The S-Word (Short film)
Annabel/Syrah
Jonny Pert The Mind Charity
2017
Thereafter (Short film)
Layla
Yinka Idowu Heels and Lens Productions
2016
Stash (Feature film)
Temiwa
Andrew 'HKB' FiNN Just Jazz Visuals
2016
Oh, Lady be good (Short film)
Lady Death (Lead)
Kosmo W. Crocco Nemesis Productions
2016
Forward Station (Short film)
Dodger (Lead)
Eugenio Triana 1863 Films
2015
The Cusp of Your Credenza (Short film)
Woman (Lead)
Anita Delaney Anita Delaney
2015
Moving On (Short film)
Jessica
Karl Bevis OCR
2015
Cyclum (Short film)
Adele (Lead)/Co-Writer
Rainer Niermann LMR Films
2014
The Siren (Short film)
Isabel
Nor Hazlin Nor Salam
Television
2018
Informer
Mrs Hassan
Jonny Campbell Neal Street Productions/BBC
2017
Who Killed Daniel Morgan
Court Clerk
Bruce Goodison Channel 4/Indefinite Films
2016
Lodgers
Saidat (Lead)
Keni Ogunlola ECinema'Live
2016
Britain Today Tonight
Session Singer
Kayvan Novak Channel 4
Theater
2025
The Smeds and The Smoos - Kids Festival Hong Kong
Janet Smed/Puppeteer/Betty Smoo
Toby Mitchell Tall Stories/Aba Productions
2024
The Smeds and The Smoos
Janet Smed/Puppeteer/Betty Smoo
Toby Mitchell Tall Stories/Warwick Arts Centre
2024
The Smeds and The Smoos
Janet Smed/Puppeteer/Betty Smoo
Toby Mitchell Tall Stories/Pleasance Grand, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
2024
Resistance and Rebellion: Breaking the Silence
Mary Prince
Holly Maples Collisions Theatre Company
2023
Conversations Across Time
Alice Woolf (Lead)
Pamela Davis Kivelson Department of Physics, The University of Oxford
2023
Sold – The Story of Mary Prince (One Hander)
Mary Prince
Euton Daley house South-East / Cayman Arts Festival / Kuumba Nia Arts
2022
The Southbury Child
Ensemble/Naomi Highland/Tina Southbury (US)
Nicholas Hytner Chichester Festival Theatre/The Bridge Theatre
2022
Protests, Hymns and Caskets
Yejidé (Lead)
Jen Davis Belgrade Theatre/Shoot Festival
2022
Here’s What She Said To Me
Aramidé (Daughter)
Mojisola Elufowoju Utopia Theatre
2021
Stories from C&I (Verbatim)
Performer
Adam McGuigan Wake The Beast
2020
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Germany Tour)
Angie/Young Silas
Paul Stebbings TNT Theatre
2020
Three Sisters by Inua Ellams after Chekhov
Ensemble/US NneChukwu (Masha) /US Abosede (Natalya)
Nadia Fall National Theatre
2019
1991
Narrator
Chibundu Onuzo Southbank Centre/Africa Utopia Festival 2019
2019
Three Sisters by Inua Ellams after Chekhov
Ensemble/US NneChukwu (Masha) /US Abosede (Natalya)
Nadia Fall National Theatre
2018
Shamrocks & Sugar
Writer / Performer (One-Hander)
Rachel Victor-Sampson Origin Arts UK
2018
The Therapy Chronicles
Writer / Performer (One-Hander)
Pub Theatre Festival 2018/Bread and Roses Theatre
2018
Water, Bread and Salt
Mandela/Soprano Singer
Anna Coombs Tangle (UK Tour)
2017
#Haters
Internet Chimera/Vocalist
Emiglia Teglia New Diorama Theatre/Odd Eyes Theatre
2016
Everything By My Side
Woman
Fernando Rubio LIFT
2016
Poof! by Lynn Nottage
Florence
Olorunfemi Fagunwa StoneCrabs Theatre/The Albany
2016
Blown Youth
Margaret
Dominic Cooper New Wimbledon Theatre Studio
2015
Black Attack
Ebony (Lead)
Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu Bush Theatre/Artistic Directors of the Future (ADF)
2015
Oh Democracy!
Greek Chorus
George Eugeniou Theatro Technis
2015
Show Me Edgware Road
Hijab Performer
Rajha Shakiry/Mojisola Adebayo Rich Mix
Audio
2016
John Galea EP Launch (Concert recording)
Supporting Vocalist
John Galea Zamna Media
Other
2024
NHS Animation
Narrator
Majid Adin / Ammar Haj Ahmad Good Chance Theatre
2024
Jubilee!
Minnie Tate/Sarah Sheppard
Andy Jordan BBC Radio 3/Made in Manchester
2024
Abel & Cain
Cain
Jennifer Davis Hampstead Theatre
2024
Biennale College - Teatro 2024 (Workshop production)
Participant
LINA LAPELYTE/VAIVA GRAINYTE/RUGILE BARZDZIUKAITE La Biennale di Venezia
2024
Cultivating Presence: Community Building using World Music, Movement, Storytelling and Improvisation (Workshop production)
Workshop Leader
Projekt Europa
2024
On The Block
Jennifer
Alice Hamilton Hampstead Theatre
2024
Medical Roleplays
Various
Professional Role Players Various
2023
Netch (Rehearsed Reading)
Ethiopian Woman
Izzy Parriss Productions
2023
Themba Lo Hambo - Community Building with Asylum Seekers (Workshop production)
Facilitator
Butshilo Nleya Projekt Europa/Royal & Derngate Theatre
2022
Dido's Bar (Immersive Jazz UK Tour) (Musical)
Dido/Marco
Josephine Burton Dash Arts
2022
Convatec - The Big Conversation
Narrator
Convatec
2022
Sizzle Reel for TINKA
Narrator
TINKA
2022
L.A. by Theo Ogundipe (Official Music Video) (Music video)
Woman
Will Carr Wolli Films
2022
Vrbo TV Commercial
Woman
VRBO
2021
The PA - TV Pilot
PC Jenifer Onyema
Diana Nneka Atuona (Writer)
2021
BLACK BRECHT by Dione Carlos
Various
Almiro Andrade Out of The Wings/Legitima Defesa
2021
Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Video
Narrator
WaterAid
2020
Caucasian Chalk Circle (Musical) by Chris Bush after Bertolt Brecht (Workshop production)
Saffiya Chachava (Simon Shashava)/Chorus
James Blakey National Theatre Studio/Public Acts
2020
Google Atelier Digital for Africa Online Commercial
Voice Over
Google
2019
Three Sisters by Inua Ellams After Chekhov (Workshop production)
Various
Nadia Fall National Theatre Studio
2019
Imperial College Medical Year 5 PACES Training session
Simulated Patient
Lizzie Dennis Imperial College London
2018
MAMMOTH The Musical (Workshop production)
Chorus
Carrie Cracknell/Matthew Herbert (MD) Theatre Royal Stratford East/BEAM
2018
We Are British
Artist
Saikat Ahmed
2018
The Dot Collective
Performer/Poet
Laura Harling
2017
A Scholar & A Statesman by Pamela Roberts
Rosetta Lawson
Carol Leeming Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester
2017
Unfinished Business
Cinema Goer
Jon Attenborough Channel 5/JSR Media
2016
Nils Frahm's - Possibly Colliding: Icelandic Choral Piece (Musical)
Singer
Peter Liversidge The Barbican
2016
Patience is a Delicate Little (Thing)
Social Worker/Nurse
Kalungi Ssebandeke Talawa Studio Firsts/Arcola Lab
2015
Illegals, The Game Show (Musical)
Case 2012
Roman Berry Divergent Theatre
2015
#Haters
Chimera
Emilia Teglia Odd Eyes Theatre
2014
Hunky Bluff, Park Nights (Musical)
Performer/Tenor Vocalist
Lina Lapelyté The Serpentine Gallery
Commercial
2023
Lotto
FESTIVAL COUPLE (Co-Lead/Featured)
Tom Hooper SMUGGLER/adam&eveDDB
2021
Comfort Intense
Primary School Teacher (Semi-Featured)
Cloé Bailly Ogilvy & Mather