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Qualification


ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, Netherlands

Performance Practices, MA

Scholarship holder German Academic Scholarship Foundation

 

Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance, London

Actor and Performer Training, MFA

Scholarship holder German Academic Scholarship Foundation

 

London International School of Performing Arts, London & Berlin

Physical Theatre, Advanced Devising Practice (two year postgraduate training)

Scholarship holder Alfred Toepfer Foundation

 

Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Lüneburg University of GhanaAccra

Cultural Sciences | Educational Sciences, BA

Film


2022 Die Pfefferkörner, ongoing series

ARD, Letterbox

direction: Andrea Katzenberger, Philipp Scholz u.a.

cast: Mira Elani Bruns

 

2020 On Noah's Blood-Stained Rainbow, We Danceperformance film

Label Noir Kollektiv, direction: Lara-Sophie Milagro

cast: Tumelo

Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin

 

2016 MyHostel, web series

Hdm Stuttgart

direction: Jonathan Behr

cast: Andy (lead)

 

Theatre (selection)


2022 TIME TURTLE

concept, performance, text: Zandile Darko

outside eye, costumes, text: Jelka Plate

Theatrium Home of Performance Practices Arnhem

 

2021 The Turtle That Never Was

concept, performance, text: Zandile Darko

dramaturgy: Claude Jansen

outside eye, concept, costumes, light: Jelka Plate

festival "The Re-Enactment of Things" at M.Bassy Hamburg

 

2019 Imagination Office 

concept, performance, text: Zandile Darko

dramaturgical advice: Claude Jansen

solo performance

Berlin Art Week, Scriptings Berlin

 

 2019 Fall Prettier

direction: Zandile Darko, Therese Ramstedt

cast: Medea

Preview at PEN's new writing Showcase by Pennyworth Productions at the Arcola Theatre, 

Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Preview "Working Title Medea")

The Space Theatre London

 

2018 Ur-Medëa

direction: Gabriel Gawin, Magdalena Koza

cast: Zoe

Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 

 

2017-2018 Silmandé

in cooperation with Ensemble Resonanz, Viktor Marek and Jardin Silmande

director, concept: Ella Huck, Dorothea Reinicke

cast: investment banker

Kampnagel Hamburg festival "Theater der Welt"

 

2013-2016 Paradise Mastaz

direction, concept: Ella Huck, Dorothea Reinicke

cast: various

Kampnagel Hamburg

Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster

Forum Freies Theater, Düsseldorf

Münchner Kammerspiele

Schauspiel Stuttgart

Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin

invitation to the XLI Festival di Morgana, Palermo, Italy

 

2011-2014 Hajusom in Bollyland

direction, concept: Ella Huck, Dorothea Reinicke

cast: various

Kampnagel Hamburg

Staatsschauspiel Dresden

Theater Dortmund
Forum Freies Theater, Düsseldorf

Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster

 

2012 Bukom with the National Dance Company of Ghana

direction, choreography: Prof. F. Nii-Yartey

cast: dancer

E.T.S. Drama Studio, Accra

 

Awards


 2014 Max-Brauer-Prize awarded by the  Alfred Toepfer Foundation I Hamburg

'Hajusom'

2012 Innovation Award Sozio-Culture I Hamburg

'Hajusom in Bollyland'

Juries


2022 - ongoing

part of the jury of the KAIROS Prize awarded by the  Alfred Toepfer Foundation I Hamburg

 

2022

part of the advisory board Dekolonisierung der Stadt Hamburg I Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg