CURRICULUM VITAE

JOSEPHINE LARSEN

Languages: ENGLISH, GERMAN AND DANISH

ENGLAND 1995- 2010

ATTENTION SEEKERS Performing together with Alice Oswald, Peter Oswald and Martin Holland ... performance group exploring the in between places between poetry, theatre, music, dance.

Co-founder/Producer/Director - TEMPLE OF NOTHING performance art; exploring multiple perceptions and the cross-fertilisation of inter-disciplinary art practice, with particular reference to 'imagination and science' (Founded 2009)

Director of a SEARCH LIGHT Production - 'Nothing Personal' by Allen Saddler - A play about the plight of the Aged (produced Feb-March 2009 in and around Totnes).

Coach/Facilitator of SCREENS SOUTH WEST - professional film acting training in collaboration with Exeter Phoenix Media Centre (Founded 2008), ongoing courses.

Co-founder, Curator and co-host of the SURREAL SALOON - hostess and programming of a monthly TV-Style Chat Show @ the EXETER PHOENIX Arts and Media Centre, Exeter, Devon - (Founded 2007)

Regular work with the Agency ACTORFACTOR - simulating patients for medical students at Plymouth Medical School (PMS) also giving feedback on student performance levels.

Qualified as Master NLP Practitioner - INLPTA Certification 2007

London College of Clinical Hypnosis (LCCH) Certificate (1 yrs training) 2006

Qualified as NLP Practitioner - INLPTA Certification 2005

Artistic Director of HEARTS TONGUE THEATRE Co. Ltd. (HTT), Co-founded with Peter Oswald (resident writer for the Globe in London), directed Peter's new works: ASH - 2003; WHITE CRANE TO LITANG - 2004; LUCIFER SAVED (staged reading) - 2005, all performances at the BARN Theatre, Dartington

Development of personal teaching system (ART14). Josephine runs her own courses in and around Totnes, Devon, under the title ACT - Acting and Confidence Training (for Actors and Non-Actors). The content and theories behind these courses have been developed over 34 years of active teaching and research in England and Denmark and Germany.

Teacher Training Qualification CERT ED (FE) + Certificate of Humanistic Counselling (Level 3) - Certified completion of both in Summer 2003

2yrs Teaching at the South Devon College for Performing Arts and Media, Torquay. HND: Drama in the Community + Btec 1st Dip

Co-Director of BUBBLE OPTIC PRODUCTIONS (BOP), Totnes - Arts Production Company

GERMAN T.V. Series directed by Diete Kehler - based on the Rosamunda Pilcher Stories and set in England - occasional German speaking parts.

TOOLS FOR SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMMING Independent Theatre Council (ITC)

PREPARATION FOR BUSINESS Certificate' NVQ Level 3 (ACT)- NCfe

Co-founder / Manager + Director of productions: TRANS FORM THEATRE Company Ltd. (T.F.T)
Twelfth Night' and 'Midsummer-night's Dream' by Shakespeare
Surreal Cabarets: 'Absurd Birth' 'Surreal Saloon' 'Butterfly Ball' 'Theatre of Dreams'
Reminiscence Projects for senior citizens
'Night Porter' by Gerry King

The wife in 'Love Bites' - Written + directed by Simon Persigetti - Produced by Tom Clarke,GOG THEATRE Assembly Rooms Glastonbury - also performed at Exeter University Literature Festival

BERLIN 1979-95

DIE KLEINE WALD BUEHNE (BERLIN) Josephine became the assistant manager of this small experimental theatre. During this period she started developing her own system of training acting students and writing/directing Experimental Productions, which later became A.R.T.14.

BERLIN BREAK (German/American Co-production for German T.V.) playing 'Gabriella Fontaine' directed by Reuben Leder (Magnum Series - USA)

ASPEKT: 25 Yr Jubilee Celebration (WDR German T.V.) featuring Marianne Segebrecht's 'Opera Curiosa'.

Ophelia in HAMLET for German Radio: Bayrischer Rundfunk directed by Simon Schneider

POETRY EVENTS: 'Night of the Living Words' and other poetry events in Berlin, where Josephine regularly explored her own performance writing.

BERLIN PLAY ACTORS (8yrs): - Experimental English Speaking Theatre Company based in BERLIN, Directed by Rik Maverik (U.S.A)
Bernard Shaw's St. Joan The Bastard
James Goldman's Lion in Winter Eleonor of Aquataine
Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit Inez
Edward Albee's Delicate Balance Agnes
Joan Schenkar's (U.S.A. Award Winning) Dr. Koch's Postulate The Maid

German/American T.V series RONABEND - Sketch Comedian - Directed by Ian McNaughton (who produced + directed 'Monty Pythons')

AKTION - German T.V. Series directed by Max Rehbein for W.D.R. Accapella Singer in documentary about a 4-man-band QUARTETT

FRINGE + STATE THEATRE (Diverse productions):

Tabori's Peep Show Greta Garbo + Girlfriend directed by Henrik Baranowski

Shakespeare's King Lear Reagan Fringe production at the Academie der Kunst

Berlin Alexander Platz The Whore of Babylon State Theatre Tribuhne

Sinfonetta Soprano - DaDa production directed by Hollywood Actress Marianne Segebrecht (Films: Bagdad Café + Rosalie goes Shopping) performed in Berlin and at the Wienna DaDa Festival including also Bruno Ferrari, Fabio Ceresa and Hupsi Kramer

(4yrs) Member of 'REINEKE FUCHS': International Rock Theatre Company in productions based on classic German ballads + texts from Goethe, Heine and other musicians/writers - toured Germany, france Spain + Portugal with Rock Operas: 'Reineke Fuchs', 'Feuer Reiter', 'Attatrol' + 'Vorsicht Feuer'.

SURREAL THEATRE PLAYS: written for Josephine Larsen by Fabio Ceresa (Swiss) tour of Germany.
Elvira in 'We're going to the Sea'
Harriet in 'The Woman in the Garden'
La Beffa in 'La Beffa'

FILM: Gedächtnis: Ein Film für CURT BOIS und BERHARD MINETTI (1982) directed by BRUNO GANZ and OTTO SANDER ... The Prostitute

FASHION MODELLING + PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK: In general demand due to public limelight.

CULT FILM: 'CLEMENTINE TANGO' - leading role in this film, which ran for 5yrs in Paris (also Rome, Los Angeles, London, Berlin). Directed by Caroline Robot and produced by Vladimir Forgency (French)

DANCE + CABARET: 'LA VIE EN ROSE' For 3yrs took the star role and moderated in a multi-dimensional Revue Show in Berlin, performing for and with V.I.P's including 'The Rolling Stones', Nina Hagen and Berlin Ensemble Ballet.

COPENHAGEN + PARIS 1974-79

QUORUM Dance Company based in PARIS at Theatre 42 - The Goddess

DR KORCZAK written/directed by Alexander Ford (Polish Film Industry) - Starring opposite Vladek Sheybal (From Russia with Love) as Dr. Korczak's assistant in the Warsaw Getto, performed in Copenhagen.

Regular teaching and direction (4yrs) of productions for Café Theatre, a fringe theatre + acting school in Copenhagen.

1974-79 COPENHAGEN'S INTERNATIONAL DANCE SCHOOL - Ballet, Modern-Jazz + Gymnastics.

ENGLAND - 1971-3

BRISTOL OLD VIC THEATRE SCHOOL