Ekow is a LAMDA-trained stage & screen actor from London. He currently plays the lead role Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe.

He stars as series regular Pedro in Becoming Elizabeth (Lionsgate+) and Mark in Smothered (Sky). Other recent work includes regular James in seasons 1 & 2 of Aisling Bea’s This Way Up (Hulu/Channel 4) and James in season 3 of Trying (Apple TV).

West End theatre credits include the title roles in Henry VIII and Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Witches, Amadeus, Peter Pan, As You Like It (National Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard II (Shakespeare’s Globe); Headlong’s People, Places & Things (National Theatre/Exeter Northcott).

Other theatre includes Colic (Pavilion Theatre Dublin); the National Theatre production of Barber Shop Chronicals (USA Tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre Royal Bath); Headlong’s The Absence of War and Spring Awakening (UK Tours); Long Story Short (Pleasance Theatre) & Eye Of A Needle (Southwark Playhouse).

Further TV credits include Breeders, The Valentine (Sky); Shakespeare & Hathaway, Call The Midwife, Enterprice (BBC).

Film credits include Lift (Netflix); The Current War (Weinstein Company). Ekow also starred in Titus Andronicus, a two-hander short film with Peter Capaldi for Shakespeare’s Globe.

Ekow was nominated for the prestigious Ian Charleson Award in 2015 & 2020.