Larissa Keat

Larissa Keat (born 1989) is a Swiss-American actor, director and performer.

Biography Larissa Keat was born in Lenzburg as the elder of two daughters with an American father and a Swiss mother. She grew up mainly in Siglistorf, a small village near the German border. Since 2013, she has lived in Hamburg, where she had moved for her acting education.

After graduating from secondary school in 2009 at Kantonsschule Baden, she did the Arts Preparation Course at the art school in Zurich (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste), where she started her studies in Scenography. After one year, she left to study acting at Schauspiel-Studio Frese in Hamburg from 2013 to 2016.

She had her first acting experience at „Atelier Kunterbunt" at eleven. Then, she was a member of the theatre group Junges Theater Baden member for eight years. After graduating from drama school, she has been working as a freelance actress and performer, for example, at Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg (director: Schorsch Kamerun) or Kampnagel Hamburg (choreography: Patricia Carolin Mai). She has also frequently worked at theatres in Switzerland, such as Junges Schauspielhaus Zürich or DAS Theater an der Effingerstrasse in Bern.

Another part of her artistic work is her engagement in the off-scene. She has written and staged several plays (#DieKapsel, NowHere Land). With the performance Rally against Radicalisation in Marrakech and Marseille, it was the first time she worked outside the German-speaking part of Europe.

Theatre

2011: Candide (2011) by Voltaire at Theater Neumarkt, director: Florian Huber 2012: Romulus der Grosse (2012) by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Junges Theater Baden, director: David Imhoof 2015: Bier für Frauen (2015) by Felicia Zeller, director: Saskia Kaufmann 2016: Kristina und Descartes (2016) by Josh Goldberg, Salontheater Eppendorf 2017: Katastrophenstimmung (2017) by Schorsch Kamerun at Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, director: Schorsch Kamerun 2018: Darwins Slipslop (2018) by Josh Goldberg, Salontheater Eppendorf 2018–2019: Nachspielzeit (2018–2019) by Jan Sobrie, Junges Schauspielhaus Zürich, director: Jan Sobrie 2019: Ein Bild von Lydia (2019) by Lukas Hartmann, DAS Theater an der Effingerstrasse, Bern, director: Markus Keller 2019: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2019) by Ken Kesey, DAS Theater an der Effingerstrasse, Bern, director: Alexander Kratzer 2020: Smith & Wesson - Rachels grosses Wagnis (2020) by Alessandro Baricco, DAS Theater an der Effingerstrasse, Bern, director: Markus Keller 2020: Der Übergang, off scene collective Lui&Lei, Schleswig-Holstein, director: Johanna Sara Schmidt/Hatto ter Hazeborg

Filmography 2012: Wenn es einfach schwierig wird (2012), image film, director: Jürg Ebe 2016: Mona (2016), bachelor film, director: Sonja Presich 2018: Die andere Seite (2018), episode: Das Haus der Seelen, TV series, TLC, director: Florian Anders 2018: Zahltag (2018), SAE graduation film, director: Alexander Lobinski 2019: Amaia, 29 (2019), independent short film, director: Madhu Chard 2020: Mosaik Teaser (2020), Tapir Filmatelier

More artistic work

Director

2016: #DieKapsel, theatre performance (2016), Hamburger Sprechwerk/ Monsun Theater Hamburg

Performer

2015: Nearly There, dance theatre by the group Bassedanse, Mojo Club Hamburg 2016: Catan Allay, dance piece, Kampnagel, choreography: Patricia Carolin Mai 2017: PartitanZ, performance at Lunatic Festival Lüneburg, concept: Marit Persiel 2018: Rally Against Radicalisation, performance in public space, Marrakech/Hamburg/Marseille, choreography: Dace Jonele 2019–2020: Dann gibt es nur eins!, by Wolfgang Borchert, open air performance as part of the Hiroschima Memorial Day and Bonhoeffer Days

Speaker

2012: Ohrenweide, audio walk, Theaterspektakel Zürich 2017: live audio drama, Krimi Komplizen, Nachtasyl Hamburg 2018: excerpts from: Du und ich und alle anderen Kinder by Bart Moeyaert, Lauschzeit, Junges Schauspielhaus Zürich

Synchronisation

2020: Alizée, in the Swiss series "HELVETICA", SRF

Own Projects

2012: Engel (2012), children's play, text/acting 2016: #DieKapsel (2016), theatre performance, Hamburger Sprechwerk/Monsun Theater Hamburg, concept and co-writing/production/direction 2016: S´Goldige Nüteli (2016), children's play, text/acting 2018: NowHere Land! – Oder wo der Bartli den Most holt (2018), theatre research, Monsun Theater Hamburg, idea/text/production/acting/co-direction