Kevin Hanssen

Kevin HanssenActing credits include:
:: Jack in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Ernest (Reps Theatre, Harare, 2010)
:: Hank and Boy in Jane Martin's playlets Travellin' Show and The Boy Who Ate The Moon for HIFA 2010. The first show to sell out at HIFA 2010! These two playlets formed part of a larger show called When Tables Turn (Under the Affluence Productions)
:: A regular performer and emcee for The Impro Show, a regular improvisation show in Harare and as a private hire show around Zimbabwe.
:: Professor John in David Mamet's riveting drama Oleanna at Reps Theatre Upstairs (September 2008), Edinburgh Fringe Festival (August 2009) (Pumpkin Pie Productions).
:: Afdis Award for the Emcee in Broadway Bits and Musical Hits 2, Reps Theatre (2009)
:: Charles in a Theory X Production of Noel Coward's play Blithe Spirit at Reps Theatre Upstairs (2009).
:: Aslan, Professor and Father Christmas in the Theory X Production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2007)
:: Performer/Director of The Bridge (2007), an original Zimbabwean play by Lucia Nhamo, Verity Norman and Kevin Hanssen. Performed in Harare, at the Grahamstown International Arts Festival (South Africa) and broadcast as a radio play on the Voice of America. Listen to it here.
:: Founding member of Over the Edge, Zimbabwe’s proudest theatrical export since it started in 1994.
:: Five seasons at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Over the Edge including ... nomination for acting excellence (The Stage - London) performing their self-penned play Born African (2001).
:: The Rabbi from Tarsus. A one man play by Phillip Goble, directed by Danai Gurira. Performed at HIFA, in Norway and the UK (all 2006).
:: Part of the 3 man Zimbabwe team at the Impro World Championships (Germany, 2006)
:: Billy in Dulux South Africa’s Edutraining series (2007)
:: Sting in The Sting Show (Harare - 2007)
:: Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (Theory X Productions - Harare, 2006)

Doubt

See Kevin alongside fellow Zimbabwean actor Anne Fischer in Pulitzer Prize winning play Doubt at the Dorchester Arts Centre in Dorset, UK.

19 - 21 August 2010

 

Baie Stuck and Billy in the Dulux Edutraining series, The Rabbi from Tarsus, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing