Tarik Frimpong

Tarik is a multi-disciplinary creative and artist. He grew up training and then teaching at his mother’s dance school ‘Dance Explosion’ in Melbourne, Australia

Choreography credits include: Associate Choreographer for A Strange Loop (Barbican); Choreographer for Choir Boy (Australian Premiere, National Theatre of Parramatta); Associate Choreographer for Beautiful – The Carole King Musical (UK Tour – Curve Theatre); Choreographer for Beauty and the Beast (Watford Palace Theatre) additional choreography for iNk’d (Colchester Fringe); Make-A-Wish Australia Annual Gala (2015).

Credits as Director include: Legally Blonde (Beck Theatre); High School Musical (Beck Theatre); Assistant Director for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Hope Mill Theatre - European Premiere).

As a performer Tarik’s Film/TV credits include: ‘Angus’ in Mary Poppins Returns; The Little Mermaid; Wicked; and Big Night Of Musicals 2022 (BBC1)

As a performer his Theatre credits include: The Drifters Girl (UK Tour); The Wiz (Hope Mill Theatre) – Black British Theatre Award nomination for Best Male Actor in a Musical; Aladdin (Prince Edward Theatre); Bring It On (Australian Premiere); Coming To England (Birmingham Rep);CAKE (The Other Palace); iNk’d (Colchester Fringe); MADIBA (Australian & New Zealand Tour), ZUP (La Compagnie Urbaine - Switzerland); The Lion King (Melbourne, Australia & Shanghai, China), Aladdin (Norwich Theatre Royal) and the choreographic workshops for Bat Out of Hell (West-End).

As a performer his Dance/Stage credits include: FKA Twigs (World Tour); Justin Bieber; Aston Merrygold; Keala Settle; Melbourne Fashion Week; Paul Smith; Samsonite; Pringles and many more.

Tarik is the founder of Artists of Colour Initiative (@aocinitiative), an Australian musical theatre scholarship program, that provides financial assistance and industry support to theatre performers based in Australia, that identify as Bla(c)k, Indigenous, or as People of Colour