Tyrone Huntley

By Amy Belson • September 3, 2018

Playing Obi.

Tyrone was featured by ES Magazine as one of 10 of London’s hottest new talents to watch and named on The Progress 1000 list of most influential Londoners (2017).

Most recently, Tyrone played Justin Laboy in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 21 Chump Street at The Courtyard Theatre and is soon to appear in Unmasked at The Other Palace, a public workshop of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest revue show written with Richard Curtis and based on the legendary composer’s life and career.

Trained: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts

Other theatre includes: Homos, or Everyone in America (The Finborough Theatre, BroadwayWorld Award nomination); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Watermill Theatre, Newbury); Angry (Southwark Playhouse, Offie Award nomination); Dreamgirls (Savoy Theatre); Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Evening Standard Award for Emerging Talent, Olivier Award nomination, WhatsOnStage Award nomination, Mousetrap Award for Best Actor); Memphis (Shaftesbury Theatre, BroadwayWorld Award nomination); Porgy & Bess (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Hairspray (Curve, Leicester); The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales, BroadwayWorld Award nomination), Aladdin (King’s Lynn Corn Exchange); Angel City (Edinburgh Fringe) and Sister Act (National Tour).