“Honestly, I’m still pinching myself – obviously I auditioned, and I’m confident, but never in a million years did I think this would happen,” said Sami Afuni, who landed his first role on stage in Hamilton.| _thmitchell
Spare a thought for future casting directors who hope to work with Sami Afuni. The 25-year-old has never worked a day in musical theatre but finds himself joining the principal cast ofis my first time in a musical or doing theatre, so the bar is pretty high,” he says.
“But at the same time, my mother was a nurse at a local school attended by a lot of nephews and grandsons of the princes of the country, so I met people from both sides of the coin, and that helped me understand more and become interested in hearing and telling stories.