Asha Banks

Asha is a young actress and singer from London. She played Thea, and also understudy Wendla, in the Olivier-nominated 2021/22 production of Spring Awakening at the Almeida Theatre (dir by Rupert Goold).
In 2019/20 she played Lisa James in the RSC production of the musical The Boy in the Dress, with score by Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers.
Before this she starred in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4 at the Menier Chocolate Factory in 2017, playing Pandora, and before that was Violet Beauregarde in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (2016). She has also performed in the Annie UK Tour, the Olivier-nominated play 1984 at the Almeida and then at the Playhouse, London, and in Les Miserables at the Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue.