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