Moses Leo

ZAV Berlin
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Moses Leo

ZAV Berlin
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Moses Leo is a German-South-African actor, performer and vocalist, based in Berlin. He studied acting at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Potsdam. 

He was involved in several motion picture productions, and in 2010 participated at the Berlinale Film Festival with the Ensemble film Barriere, directed by Andreas Kleinert. In the same year he was a selected fellow at the Berlinale Talent Campus. 

He had engagements at some of the most important theatres in the German speaking area, such as Münchner Kammerspiele, Schauspielhaus Zürich, as well as the iconic Burgtheater in Vienna and Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin, among others. 

In 2019 he was awarded the Price of the International Theaterinstitut as part of the ensemble of Mittelreich, a history-making theatre production, which premiered at the prestigious Münchner Kammerspiele.

In the last years, he has been working with several influential contemporary artists, such as Robin Rhode, for whom he performed as “Doppelgänger” in his opera performance Erwartung, presented at Performa15 in New York City. 

As well as with Grada Kilomba, starring as Narcissus and Oedipus in her large scale video installation trilogy A World of Illusions, which has been shown internationally and was recently included into the permanent collection of Tate Modern, in London.

Besides his occupation as an actor, performer and voice-over artist, he is doing music - writing and performing his own vocals, developing his particular take on Deutschrap.

ZAV-Künstlervermittlung Berlin
Thomas Melzer
+49 228 502 088024
thomas.melzer@arbeitsagentur.de
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Moses Leo
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Actor•31-37 years•German •
Place of residence Berlin (DE)
Gendermale
Year of birth1984 (40 years)
Working permitsEuropean Union (EU-27)
Housing optionsLisbon (PT), New York (US), Johannesburg (ZA), Munich (DE), Hamburg (DE), Stuttgart (DE), Vienna (AT), Cologne (DE), Dresden (DE), Leipzig (DE), Zürich (CH), Berlin (DE), Hanover (DE), Frankfurt (DE)
AssociationsBundesverband Schauspiel e.V. (BFFS)
SpecializationsDubbing actor, Orator
Driver's licensesB - Car, L - Small tractor
Eye colorgreen brown
Hair colordark brown
Height (cm)197
Weight (in kg)87
LanguagesGerman(native)EnglishPortugueseFrench
DialectsAmerican-StandardBerlin GermanThuringian (thüringisch)(native dialect)
InstrumentsPercussion
SportAlpine skiingAthleticsBasketballFencing (sports)SnowboardingVolleyball
DanceHip hopStandardAfro danceLatin American dancesPopStreet dance
PitchTenor
SingingChansonHip HopPopRapRockJazz
Training
Primary professional training
2005 – 2010
Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Other professional training
2011
Workshop mit Lena Lessing "How to Create a Unique Character"
2010
Berlinale Talent Campus
2008
Synchronworkshop mit Anna Barbara Kurek, Dietmar Wunder und Rainer Brandt
Awards
2019
Preis des Internationalen Theaterinstituts für MITTELREICH
Film
2012
FLUSHERS (Cinema film)
The Seller
Daryush Shokof Kino
2010
BARRIERE (Cinema film)
Ben
Andreas Kleinert Kino
Television
2022
TATORT, Das Opfer
Tourist
Stefan Schaller rbb/degeto Karimah El-Giamal
Theater
2024
Ich nehm dir alles weg - EIN SCHLAGERBALLETT (Choreography)
Roy Blanco (MR)
Joana Tischkau HAU Hebbel am Ufer
2024
CYPRESSENBURG
Titus Fox (MR)
Isabelle Redfern Burgtheater
2023 – 2024
DIE MÖWE
Trigorin (MR)
Christopher Rüping Schauspielhaus Zürich
2023
DER STEPPENWOLF
Harry Haller (MR)
Wiktor Baginski Theater Freiburg
2023
ANTI WAR WOMEN
Hope Bridges // Mary Church Terrell (MR)
Jessica Glause Münchner Kammerspiele
2022
KARNEVAL
Roboto Blänks
Joana Tischkau Theater Oberhausen
2021
1000 SERPENTINEN ANGST
Bruder
Anta Helena Recke Maxim Gorki Theater
2017 – 2018
MITTELREICH
Semi
Anta Helena Recke Münchner Kammerspiele
2015
ERWARTUNG
The Man
Robin Rhode Performa 15, New York City
Audio
2022
EIN AMERIKANISCHER TRAUM - von Barack Obama
Audiobook
Frank Bruder
2022
THE PROMISE - Das Versprechen von Damon Galgut
Audiobook
Kati Schäfer
2021
THE UPPER WORLD - Ein Hauch Zukunft von Femi Fadugba
Audiobook
Roman Neumann
2016
Ode, Odessa, Odyssee. Der Mythos der Stadt am Schwarzen Meer
Voice-Over
Friederike Wigger
2016
Von Masyaf ins Berghain
Voice-Over
Friederike Wigger
2016
Inspiration versus Imitation
Voice-Over
Friederike Wigger
2016
Ingredients of democracy
Voice-Over
Friederike Wigger
2015
Syria.FM
Voice-Over
Julia Tieke
2014
Residenzpflicht - only when i die!
Voice-Over
Lydia Ziemke & Friederike Wigger
Other
2019
ILLUSIONS Vol III, Antigone (Video installation)
Polyneices
Grada Kilomba Bildmuseet Umeå, Sweden & Maxim Gorki Theater
2018
ILLUSIONS Vol II, Oedipus (Video installation)
Oedipus
Grada Kilomba 10. Berlin Biennale
2016
ILLUSIONS Vol. I, Narcissus and Echo (Video installation)
Narcissus
Grada Kilomba 32. Bienal de São Paulo
Internet
2020
KNEEDEEP
Moses Leo
Robin Rhode YouTube
2019
SPÄTZÜNDER
Moses Leo
Moses Leo & Oskar Redfern YouTube
2011 – 2012
9 (NEUN)
Baba Wagner, Burn Out, Roberto Black
Geisbaba YouTube