CURRICULUM VITAE
JOSEPHINE LARSEN
Born: 19th August 1953
Languages: ENGLISH, GERMAN AND DANISH
ENGLAND 1995- 2011
SHORT SHRIFTS Ltd Performances of Peter Oswald's Short Plays (Founded 2010) GLASSHOUSE, Stourbridge; BLUE THEATRE, Week; OSWALD THEATRE, Ashprington; SHARPHAM HOUSE, Ashprington; BIKE SHED THEATRE, Exeter (April 2011); ENGLISH THEATRE, Berlin (Oct 2011); SOHO THEATRE, London (Nov 2011)
ATTENTION SEEKERS Performing together with Alice Oswald, Peter Oswald and Martin Holland ... performance group exploring the in between places between poetry, theatre, music, dance. PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY; SHARPHAM HOUSE, Ashprington (Founded 2009)
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 and PEEL PATIENTS - 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 (ACT) 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) Produced Bubble Optic Surreal Club House (BOSCH) events in 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
(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.
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

ACTING and CONFIDENCE TRAINING