Mercy Dorcas Otieno
​​(c) Fatih Kurceren

Mercy Dorcas Otieno, born 1987 in Nairobi (Kenya), studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna from 2013 to 2017. Before that she studied sociology at the Karl-Franzens-Universität in Graz and worked as an au-pair in Germany and Austria from 2006 on. Her first permanent engagement took her to the Schauspielhaus Graz under Iris Laufenberg in the 2017/2018 season. She has worked with directors such as Volker Hesse, Lily Sykes, Dominic Friedel and Nina Gühlstorff. Since the 2018/2019 season she is a member of the ensemble of Schauspielhaus Bochum.

Current roles:

Past roles:

Baroque Mercy Dorcas Otieno
© Fred Debrock

Peer Gynt: Mercy Dorcas Otieno, Anna Drexler (from left)
© Matthias Horn

Mercy Dorcas Otieno
© Birgit Hupfeld

Mercy Dorcas Otieno
© Birgit Hupfeld

Mercy Dorcas Otieno
© JU Bochum