Junior Laniyan
Junior Laniyan is an accomplished actor/dancer having appeared on stage as Master Juba in Master Juba, Pete Spivy in Blues for Mr Charlie for the Tricycle Theatre, Citylink in Dinner with Bono in the London Eye, Kamel in D'you Know What I Mean and Him in Fifteen Minutes Before, both at Nottingham's Lakeside Arts Centre. As a Dancer he has appeared in New York on Tap and Cross Currents Turned on Tap at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Robbie Williams Live at the Royal Albert Hall, Feet Fusion Tap Concert in Finland's Gloria Theatre, Finding Synaesthesia at the Purcell Room, as well as Riverdance in the UK & Germany. On screen he played The Photographer in Kill, Kill, Faster, Faster & Pvt Bell in 28 Days Later. He has also worked extensively in numerous television productions including A Respectable Trade, Doctors, Rough Diamonds, If You See God Tell Him Prime Suspect 2 and Holby City for the BBC, Stealing Lives for Channel Four. Family Affairs for Channel Five as well as Twenty-Four Seven, Wavelength and Coronation Street for Granada Television. Junior is currently the host of his own London Tap Jam Sessions, which are based in Londons' Digress Bar in Beak Street.