Larissa Keat

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 secondary school in 2009 at Kantonsschule Baden, she did the Arts Preparation Course at the arts 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 made her first acting experiences at „Atelier Kunterbunt“ at the age of eleven. Then she was a member of the theatre group Junges Theater Baden for eight years. After graduating 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 worked at theaters in Switzerland quite frequently, 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 own 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

Larissa Keat 2018 in Nachspielzeitby Jan Sobrie at Junges Schauspielhaus Zürich

Candide (2011) by Voltaire at Theater Neumarkt, director: Florian Huber

Romulus der Grosse (2012) by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Junges Theater Baden, director: David Imhoof

Bier für Frauen (2015) by Felicia Zeller, director: Saskia Kaufmann

Kristina und Descartes (2016) by Josh Goldberg, Salontheater Eppendorf

Katastrophenstimmung (2017) by Schorsch Kamerun at Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, director: Schorsch Kamerun

Darwins Slipslop (2018) by Josh Goldberg, Salontheater Eppendorf

Nachspielzeit ) by Jan Sobrie, Junges Schauspielhaus Zürich, director: Jan Sobrie

Ein Bild von Lydia (2019) by Lukas Hartmann, DAS Theater an der Effingerstrasse, Bern, director: Markus Keller

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2019) by Ken Kesey, DAS Theater an der Effingerstrasse, Bern, director: Alexander Kratzer

Smith & Wesson - Rachels grosses Wagnis (2020) by Alessandro Baricco, DAS Theater an der Effingerstrasse, Bern, director: Markus Keller

Filmography

Wenn es einfach schwierig wird (2012), image film, director: Jürg Ebe

Mona (2016), bachelor film, director: Sonja Presich

Die andere Seite (2018), episode: Das Haus der Seelen, TV series, TLC, director: Florian Anders

Zahltag (2018), SAE graduation film, director: Alexander Lobinski

Amaia, 29 (2019), independent short film, director: Madhu Chandra

Mosaik Teaser (2020), Tapir Filmatelier

More artistic work

Director

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

Performer

Nearly There (2015), dance theatre by the group Bassedanse, Mojo Club Hamburg

Catan Allay (2016), dance piece, Kampnagel, choreography: Patricia Carolin Mai

PartitanZ (2017), performance at Lunatic Festival Lüneburg, concept: Marit Persiel

Rally Against Radicalisation (2018), performance in public space, Marrakech/Hamburg/Marseille, choreography: Dace Jonele

Dann gibt es nur eins! (2019) by Wolfgang Borchert, open air performance as part of the Hiroschima Memorial Day

Speaker

Ohrenweide (2012), audio walk, Theaterspektakel Zürich

live audio drama (2017), Krimi Komplizen, Nachtasyl Hamburg

excerpts from: Du und ich und alle anderen Kinder (2018) by Bart Moeyaert, Lauschzeit, Junges Schauspielhaus Zürich

Synchronisation

Alizée (2020) in the Swiss series "HELVETICA", SRF

Own Projects

Engel (2012), children’s play, text/acting

#DieKapsel (2016), theatre performance, Hamburger Sprechwerk/Monsun Theater Hamburg, concept and co-writing/production/direction

S´Goldige Nüteli (2016), children’s play, text/acting

NowHere Land! – Oder wo der Bartli den Most holt (2018), theatre research, Monsun Theater Hamburg, idea/text/production/acting/co-direction