Temi Wilkey (Writer and Performer)
Temi Wilkey is an actor & writer from North London. She studied English at Cambridge before training with the National Youth Theatre REP company in 2014.
She recently finished a run in Alexander Zeldin’s Love which toured Europe. Temi’s theatre credits include Hamlet and Cymbeline for the Royal Shakespeare Company, How To Hold Your Breath at the Royal Court, and The Comedy of Errors at the National Theatre.
Temi was a member of the Royal Court’s Young Writers Group in 2017 and wrote her debut play, The High Table, at the course’s culmination. It was produced at the Bush Theatre in Lynette Linton’s debut season, and won Temi the Stage Debut Award for Best Writer in 2020.
She also co-founded & co-directed the Drag King company, Pecs, performing in the sell-out runs of their shows at venues including Soho Theatre, The Yard & Tate Britain before leaving the company in 2019.
Temi wrote an episode of Netflix’s Sex Education S3 for which she was nominated for the NAACP award for Outstanding writing in a Comedy Series. She also wrote two episodes for Disney Plus’s Wedding Season. Temi is working on her own original projects in the UK and US. In 2021 she was on the BFI Flare x BAFTA Crew programme mentored by Russell T Davies and was named one of Forbes 30 under 30.
Need to know: Main Character Energy plays at Soho Theatre until 15 Mar 2025
Related links
Black Out Night | 4 March 2025 – Main Character Energy, Soho Theatre
Temi Wilkey interview – 2020, The High Table
