biography

Training:
1999 - 2003 Dramatic arts studies with Masters degree
at the University Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria and Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, Scotland

2010 Master Class Workshop with Larry Moss, New York/ Vancouver
2010 Shakespeare Workshop with Donald Adams, Molly Lyons, Shakespeare Centre Vancouver/Touchstone Theatre Vancouver
2010 Cold Reading Workshop with Paul Weber MGM-Castingdirector, L.A./Vancouver
2010 The Professional´s Foundry with Matthew Harrison, Actors Foundry, Vancouver
2010 Actors Primer Workshop with Matthew Harrison, Actors Foundry, Vancouver
2003 Musical Masterclass with Adrienne de West (Amsterdam/The Netherlands)
2003 Clownsworkshop with with Angela de Castro
2001 Clownsworkshop with Pierre Byland

1996 - 1998 trained as radio journalist and announcer at Radio Fantasy in Augsburg, Germany
1998 - 1999 Apprenticeship in the media center in Augsburg, Germany

Award: Best upcoming actor of Hesse
Hessonian days of theatre 2007, for the part of “Elisabeth” in the production “Faith, Love, Hope” (director: Titus Georgi; Stadttheater Giessen)

Teaching:
Acting and singing instructor January - December 2010 at John Robert Powers, Canada

Film / TV:
2011/2012 “Mother China – her Shanghainese blue eyes”,
(post production), Wen Wen productions, Canada
2010 “How to boil a frog”, Fools Bay Ltd./Jon Cooksey, Canada
2010 “Iris”, Lead, Vancouver Film School / Nathaniel Geary, Canada
2009 “Trennschärfe” (selectivity), cine film, Dobago productions, Csongor Dobrotka
2008 “Surprise – 60 years human rights”, Social Spot, EU-Commission, various stations in 23 countries, Simon Ritzler / Hauke Hilberg
2007 “Echo”, shortfilm, Filmacademy Ludwigsburg, Benjamin Gronau;
winner of the Organizer's Prize of the Philosophy Film Festival 2007, Poland
2006 “Das Lernen lernen” (study learning), WBF-Media Hamburg
2002 “Schlagwort” (buzzword), shortfilm, TechnoZ Salzburg
2002 “Traumfänger” (dreamcatcher), shortfilm, Medienstelle Augsburg
1999 “Reif für den Glauben” (ready for religion), documentary, (as producer, editor)

Theatre engagements:
Fringe Festival Edinburgh Scotland, Theatre Gießen, National Theatre Darmstadt, Old Playhouse Stuttgart, Bavarian National Theatre Munich

Projects & presentation:
Presenter at the Bavarian Youth and Childrens Film Festival (1998)
Presenter at the German Youth Photo Awards (1999)
Presenter at the Schwabian Youth Film Festival (1999 - 2013)
Narrator for various promotional- and documentary films,
Commentator for Augsburg actuell, Pro FM, the media center Augsburg, Voice over and ADR work
Youth exchange program with Tanzania, Africa (August 1997)
Study trip to Japan (March/April 1999) with participation at IMAF-World Championship (2nd Place)

Singing programs:
• Chanson project “For all the Johnnys of this world”
(songs from the twenties to sixties),
• Kreisler caroussel
(song selection of the Austrian composer Georg Kreisler),
• Jazz-Funk-Soul-Collection with band (piano, drums, bass, sax)

Radio play:
“Under the milkway” by Dylan Thomas ORF Salzburg, 2001

Theatre productions (selection)
in Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria and Scotland:

Germanspoken productions:
King Lear (Shakespeare) “Goneril” with Murat Yeginer
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) “Jordan Baker” with Silvia Armbruster
Cleansed (Kane) “Grace” with Andreas Wiedermann
Scorched (Mouawad) “Sawda” with Hermann Schein
Faith, Love, Hope (Horvath) “Elisabeth” with Titus Georgi
Blackbird (Harrower) “Una” with Sarah Kohrs
View through the window (Schmidt) UA “Suse” with Ragna Kirck
Pinocchio (Collodi) “Pinocchio” with Ragna Kirck
Disease death (Duras) “She” with Bastian Kraft
Innocence (Loher) “Rosa” with Astrid Jacob
The balcony (Genet) “Chantal” with Thomas Goritzki
The second princess (Pigor) “second princess” with Abdul M. Kunze
Twelfth night (Shakespeare) “Viola” with Jens Schmidl
The glassmenagerie (Williams) “Laura” with Thorsten Schilling
The servant of two masters (Goldoni) “Clarice” with Matthias Kniesbeck
Spring awakening (Wedekind) “Wendla” with Alexander Seer
A midsummernights dream (Shakespeare) “Helena” with Stephanie Kissel
Candide (Voltaire) “Candid”, “Son of baron” with Urs Troller
Warplays (Bond) “Second woman”, “Soldier” with Jay Scheib
The battle (Müller) “The butcher's wife” with Sabine Andreas
Watzlaff (Mrozek) “Mrs Bat” with Hans-Jörg Utzerath
The plague (Artaud) “Young woman” with Philipp Taylor
Commedia dell’arte “Pulcinella”, “Lover”with Alexander Marcchetti
(in German and Italian language)

Englishspoken productions:
Wintergarten cabaret, various roles, Genus Theatre Company Vancouver
The suicide (Erdman) “Zinka” with John Ramage
Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare) “Aaron” with Graham Parry
A midsummernights dream (Shakespeare) “Helena” with Stephanie Kissel
Richards cork leg (Behan) “Bawd 1/Maria Concepta” with Dieter Ungelehrt/Karen Conboy
Way upstream (Ayckbourn) “June” with Dieter Ungelehrt/Karen Conboy
Freedom of the city (Friel) “Brigadier Johnson-Handsbury”, “Reporter Ailish O’Kelly” with Dieter Ungelehrt/Karen Conboy
Fugitive friends - cross the pond with Erik Norlin/theatre slava-company Sweden

Self dependent projects:
• “Kill that woman!“
concept and stage directing together with Carola Marie Lowitz;
• Dance Performance “Auditory Pathway”
concept and choreography in collaboration with Kai Guzowski
lyrics: Nicole Lohfink

Composition:
“Not a flower” lyrics: William Shakespeare, for the production “Twelfth night” (director: Jens Schmidl)

Publication:
Mental and physical preparation of an actor – the psycho-physical unity on the basis of Feldenkrais-method and Alexander-Technique
Ibidem-publishing company Stuttgart, 2005