Larissa Keat

Larissa Keat 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, 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 or Kampnagel Hamburg. 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. 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 by Voltaire at Theater Neumarkt, director: Florian Huber
2012: Romulus der Grosse by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Junges Theater Baden, director: David Imhoof
2015: Bier für Frauen by Felicia Zeller, director: Saskia Kaufmann
2016: Kristina und Descartes by Josh Goldberg, Salontheater Eppendorf
2017: Katastrophenstimmung by Schorsch Kamerun at Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, director: Schorsch Kamerun
2018: Darwins Slipslop by Josh Goldberg, Salontheater Eppendorf
2018–2019: Nachspielzeit by Jan Sobrie, Junges Schauspielhaus Zürich, director: Jan Sobrie
2019: Ein Bild von Lydia by Lukas Hartmann, DAS Theater an der Effingerstrasse, Bern, director: Markus Keller
2019: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, DAS Theater an der Effingerstrasse, Bern, director: Alexander Kratzer
2020: Smith & Wesson - Rachels grosses Wagnis 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, image film, director: Jürg Ebe
2016: Mona, bachelor film, director: Sonja Presich
2018: Die andere Seite, episode: Das Haus der Seelen, TV series, TLC, director: Florian Anders
2018: Zahltag, SAE graduation film, director: Alexander Lobinski
2019: Amaia, 29, independent short film, director: Madhu Chard
2020: Mosaik Teaser, Tapir Filmatelier

More artistic work

Director

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