Mercy Dorcas Otieno

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:

• Der Bus nach Dachau
• Baroque
• Gertrud in Hamlet
• Der Dovre-Alte / Anitra in Peer Gynt
• Farida Mtamakosi, Text, Director, Stage design in Who the F*** are you
• Wo steht dein Maulbeerbaum?

Past roles:

• Tebaldea in Lorenzaccio
• Die Hoffnung in Hoffen und Sehnen / Umut ve Özlem / Nadzieja i tęsknota
• With in Die Befristeten
• Episode 1 in Aus der Rolle fallen
• Die unglaubliche Geschichte vom kleinen Roboterjungen
• Audrey / Marie-Françoise in Plattform / Unterwerfung
• O, Augenblick
• Wie es euch Algorithmus.
• Robinson in Me, a Robinson.
• Alle Jahre wieder
• Audrey in Plattform
• Marie-Françoise in Unterwerfung