Ashley Zhangazha Featured in 2023 Guildhall School Honors

Actor, director and Guildhall School mentor, Ashley Zhangazha has been made a Fellow of Guildhall School of Music & Drama at this year’s Guildhall School graduation ceremony on Friday 3 November.

Zhangazha was the winner of the 2018 UK Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Musical for his portrayal of Skye in the Royal Exchange production of Guys & Dolls.

The Class of 2023 were presented with their degrees and prizes at Guildhall School’s annual Graduation ceremony in the City of London’s Guildhall. The School also awarded Fellowships to a number of honorands, over two graduation ceremonies attended by graduands, honorands, prize-winners, guests and staff.

This year, those made Fellows of the School were:

Fellows

• Geoff Harniess (Head of Centre for Young Musicians London between 2013 and 2023)
• Alastair Putt Posthumous (Master of Composition (Guildhall Artist) 2010)
• Ashley Zhangazha (Acting 2010)

Honorary Fellows

• Gillian Laidlaw (Long-term benefactor of Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Trustee of the Guildhall School Trust since 2020)
• Hugh Vanstone (Lighting designer and supporter of The Vanstone Scholarship for Production Arts at Guildhall School)
• Roger Wilson (Co-founder and Director of Operations of Black Lives in Music, an initiative dedicated to addressing better representation in music)

Photo: Ashley Zhangazha and Sheriff and Alderman Bronek Masojada. Credit: Clive Totman