Jimand Allotey, 26, is warmly, infectiously effervescent. She and I are chatting in a coffee shop at London Bridge because I had seen her sparky work in Spontaneous Production’s open air Around the World in Eighty Days a couple of weeks earlier and wanted to know more about her and her career. I organise her chai latte and get out my notebook.
“I was born in Epsom and I still have family in Surrey, but I grew up in Ghana because my parents went back for work. So I have a along with and I just loved musicals” says Jimand, who shares accommodation in London with her two younger brothers. One is at boarding school and the other at university.
