Tosh Wanogho-Maud

Biography

Tosh began on the West End as a child, starring as Young Simba in Disney’s The Lion King. Wanogho-Maud went on to study at the BRIT school for Performing Arts & Technology and graduated from Bird College of Dance and Theatre Performance. Thereafter, he won starring roles in West End productions of Show Boat and The Book of Mormon, as well as numerous other touring shows around the country. Tosh’s status as leading man was crystalised via the part of Jimmy Early in Dreamgirls at The Savoy Theatre in 2018, after which he began to diversify into film and television; securing credits in Netflix’s Bridgeton and Jingle Jangle, as well as BBC’s Roadkill. 2021 saw some of his biggest role(s) to date, as one of the five stars of Michael Harrison’s The Drifters Girl at The Garrick Theatre. Alongside Oliver Winners Beverley Knight, Matt Henry MBE, the all black cast and co-creator team told the decades-spanning story of The Drifters and their female manager, Faye Treadwell. Alongside waitresses, record execs and a gamete of other characters, The Drifters Girl saw Tosh bring musical legends Ben E. King and Rudy Lewis to life via songs like Stand By Me and Under The Boardwalk. Shortly after the Drifters ended their run on the West End, Tosh traveled to Toronto/Egypt for a Pharaoh-stopping star-turn in Joseph & The Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat. It was seven fat cows by night and rehearsals for the biggest challenge of his career by day…the role of David Ruffin in the brand-new transfer of Broadway’s Aint Too Proud, opening in April 2023 and playing at the Prince Edward Theatre until 2024. Outside of Theatre, Tosh is an avid reader, writer, gym-goer and self-described geek; one who hopes to answer the call for greater representation behind-the-scenes and in positions of power by producing stories of his own in the world of the arts that he knows so well. Whilst weathering the post-pandemic alongside his contemporaries Tosh continues to add to his past work alongside some of entertainment’s biggest names, as well as forge ahead in new multi-faceted, equitable, minority-lead roles on both stage and screen.