Qualification
ArtEZ University of the Arts, NL
Performance Practices, Master (practice-led research, thesis can be accessed here)
Scholarship holder German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance, UK
Actor and Performer Training, Master of Fine Arts with Distinction
Scholarship holder German Academic Scholarship Foundation
London International School of Performing Arts, UK, DE
Physical Theatre, Advanced Devising Practice (two year postgraduate training)
Scholarship holder Alfred Toepfer Foundation
Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Lüneburg | University of Ghana, DE, GH
Cultural Sciences | Educational Sciences, Bachelor
Awards & Scholarships
2024 Nordwind Residency Kampnagel Hamburg
2023 Dis-Tanz-Solo scholarship Is it
Dance?, NEUSTART KULTUR
2022 Research scholarship "Stories of a Taxidriver", NEUSTART KULTUR
2021 #TakeCareResidenz with Label Noir, HAU Berlin, NEUSTART KULTUR
2014 Max-Brauer-Prize member of ensemble Hajusom, awarded by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation
2012 Innovation Award Sozio-Culture for production "Hajusom in Bollyland"
Juries
2022 - ongoing jury of the European KAIROS Prize I Alfred Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg
2022 advisory board for the Deoclonization of Hamburg I Ministry of Culture and Media (BKM) Hamburg
Film
2025 On Noah's Blood-Stained Rainbow We Dance
Label Noir
direction: Lara-Sophie Milagro
cast: Tumelo, police officer
2022-2024 Die Pfefferkörner, series
ARD, Letterbox
direction: Andrea Katzenberger, Philipp Scholz u.a.
cast: Mira Elani Bruns
2016 MyHostel, web series
Hdm Stuttgart
direction: Jonathan Behr
cast: Andy (lead)
Theatre (selection)
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
2020 Auf Noahs Blutigem Regenbogen Tanzen Wir, filmische Lesung
Label Noir Kollektiv, direction: Lara-Sophie Milagro
cast: Tumelo
Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
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