Actor accuses Central School of Speech and Drama of paying lip service to anti-discrimination pledges after 2015 incident

The actor Shaniqua Okwok has criticised the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, claiming she was told to embrace her “inherited trauma” and act like a slave in chains during an acting exercise.

Okwok, who appeared in Steve McQueen’s series Small Axe and the award-winning drama It’s a Sin, accused the prestigious drama school of paying lip service to its anti-discrimination pledges by failing to say whether it had disciplined the teacher involved in the incident in 2015.

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