Yama Tessa Hart | Culture & Change Maker
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  • Who?
  • Wer?
  • Qui?
  • Creative Head!
  • Kreativer Kopf!
  • Tête Créative!
  • Artistic...
    • Directions
    • Performance
  • Künstlerisch...
    • in Szene setzen
    • Performen
  • Artistique...
    • Mise-en-scène
    • Performance
  • Neurodiverse
  • Neurodivers
  • Words...
    • Published
    • Staged
  • Worte...
    • Veröffentlichungen
    • So'n Theater
  • Mots...
    • Publications
    • du Théâtre
  • Wirken & (Ver)Wandeln
  • Impact & (Trans)Formation
  • Œuvre & (Trans)Formation
  • Facilitation
  • Vermitteln
  • Médiation
  • & Connection
  • & Verbinden
  • & Connexion

Creative
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Cultural Leadership

Core Companies
Festivals
Creative Producing
Juries
Awards
Degrees

Core Companies / Projects

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kultur_formen - Qualification Programmes Coordinator at the Berliner Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung (Berlin Project Fund Arts Education) (since Jul 2024)
​kultur_formen is dedicated to the connection between art, culture, youth, education and urban society with a focus on advancement, qualification and community work. www.kulturformen.berlin

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AfroPolitan Berlin - Project & Artistic Director (Sep 2020 - Jun 2024)
​A Black community project with the mission to strengthen Black & Afrodiasporic people and the communities in which they live and work, through workshops, cultural events, community meet-ups and more. www.afropolitan.berlin 

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Goblin Baby Co. - Producing Artistic Director & Founder (since Mar 2013)
​A transcultural artistic collective company, with a changing & growing line-up, creating bold and vibrant original works focused on authentic representation and radical exploration. www.goblinbaby.com

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The Bread & Roses Theatre
- Artistic Director (2014 - 2018)​ ​​- Executive Director (2014-2022) - & Co-Founder (2012 - 2014)
​An award-winning and innovative fringe pub theatre in South London. www.breadandrosestheatre.co.uk
A sister venue in central London was open from Januarry 2019 to February 2020. www.chapelplayhouse.co.uk


Festivals

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Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis - Selection Committee / Programmer / Moderator (since 2020)
Considered the most important newcomer film festival in the German-speaking world. www.ffmop.de

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Performing Arts Festival Berlin
-  Associate Director (Feb - Aug 2019) - ​Co-Director (Organisation) (Sep 2019 - Jul 2020) ​
​A festival celebrating Berlin’s independent performing arts community. www.performingarts-festival.de

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Clapham Fringe Festival - Co-Founder (in 2015) & Co-Manager (2015, 2016 & 2017)
​A yearly performing arts festival in the vibrant South West London area. www.claphamfringe.com

  • One Billion Rising Festival - Producing Artistic Director & Founder (Sep 2015 - Mar 2016)
A creative campaign in February 2016, part of the biggest mass global action demanding an end to violence against women.
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  • UNHEARD Festivals - Producing Artistic Director & Founder (Mar 2013 - Mar 2015)
A unique performance festival exploring themes around sexual abuse and violence, which took place in 2013 and 2015 in London.

Creative Producing

  • Schwarze Magie -  eine afro(sur)realistische Poesie-Performance, 2024, Theater Expedition Metropolis, Berlin
  • ​A.U.T.I.S.M. - Artistically Ultimately Tangibly Intensely Shamelessly Myself by Tessa Hart, 2023, Vierte Welt, Berlin
  • Schwarze Zukunft by Tessa Hart, 2022/2023, Theater Expedition Metropolis, Berlin
  • The Bread & Roses Playwriting Award - Winning Plays, 2019-2022, production support & publication; Who You Are and What You Do by Hugh Dichmont, I and the Village by Darren Donohue, Hungerland by Rachel O'Regan, The Bread & Roses Theatre, London
  • ​Raise the Vibration (V-Day Performance), 2020, Amerika-Gedenkbilbiothek, Berlin
  • TRUMPED (feature film), 2019, Bethnal Films (Executive Producer)
  • ​The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, 2013-2019, The Space, London; Rose Lipman Building, London;  The Bread & Roses Theatre, London; ​Theater Verlängertes Wohnzimmer, Berlin
  • ​Little Did I Know by Doc Andersen-Bloomfield. 2018, The Bread & Roses Theatre, London
  • Where do we go from here? Playwrights react to Brexit and Trump, 2017, The Bread & Roses Theatre, London
  • Fran & the Littlest Reindeer by Tilly Lunken, 2017, Rosemary Branch Theatre, London; ​The Bread & Roses Theatre, London (Associate Producer)
  • Alone Inside the Box, 2016, The Bread & Roses Theatre, London
  • Bloodletting by Emma Gibson, 2015, The Bread & Roses Theatre, London
  • The Princess Monologues, 2015/2016, Hen & Chickens Theatre, London; Theatre N16, London; ​The Space, London; The Bread & Roses Theatre, London
  • CinderElla & Her Smelly Old Slipper ​by Tessa Hart, 2015, The Bread & Roses Theatre, London
  • (S)Elfish Christmas by Tessa Hart, 2015, The Bread & Roses Theatre, London
  • The Devil & Stepashka ​by Claire Booker, 2014, The Space, London; ​Ye Olde Rose & Crown, London
  • The Proposal / To Be a Wife by Anton Chekhov / Tilly Lunken, 2014, Hen & Chickens Theatre, London
  • FORESEEN, Short looks into post-apocalyptic futures, 2014, Hen & Chickens Theatre, London
  • RETOLD, Fairytales without the 'happily-ever-after', 2013/2014, ​The Space, London; Hen & Chickens Theatre, London
  • The Platform, A Page to Stage Scratch Night for New Writing, 2012-2018, The Bread & Roses Theatre, London

Jury Activities

  • Theaterpreis des Bundes (2024)
  • Global Village Kids, Fonds Darstellende Künste (2023, 2024)
  • FRATZ International 2024 - Encounters – Symposium – Festival für die Jüngsten
  • IKARUS Nomination Jury, Berlin Children's & Youth Theatre Prize of the JugendKulturService (JKS)​ (2021/2022-2024)
  • Berliner Schaufenster - Darstellende Künste für die Jüngsten​ (2023)
  • FRATZ International: Encounters - Symposium - Festival for the Very Young (2023)
  • Kreativ-Transfer (2023, 2024)
  • ​Berlin Senate Department for Culture & Europe / Community (2022 & 2023)
  • Berlin Women's Award (2023, 2024)
  • Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste (2021)
  • Kultur- & Kreativpilot*innen (2021)
  • Les best de l'humour (2017)

Awards

  • London Pub Theatre Awards "Commendation for Services to Pub Theatres" for Joint Directors of The Bread & Roses Theatre, 2020
  • Best Feature Film Award, Eurasia International Film Festival, for TRUMPED (as Executive Producer & lead actress), 2018
  • Free Speech Award, Cult Critic Movie Awards, for TRUMPED (as Executive Producer & lead actress), 2018
  • ICWP 5050 Applause Award during Artistic Directorship for The Bread & Roses Theatre in 2015, 2016 & 2017

Degrees / Formal Education

  • Bachelor of Arts (BA) - Theatre Studies - Free University of Berlin, 2006-2009
  • Master of Fine Arts (MFA) - Acting International - East 15 Acting School (London) / University of Essex, 2009-2011
  • Tamasha Playwrights - one-year training programme for selected playwrights with Tamasha Theatre Company (London), 2015-2016
  • Criterion New Writing - one-year training programme for selected playwrights with Criterion Theatre (London), 2016-2017
  • Currently pursuing a PhD at FU Berlin  with the working title "Diasporadical Spaces - Contemporary Afropean Performing Arts across (Post-) German contexts"
  • Currently pursuing SG-certified qualification in "Systemic Coaching and Organisational Development" at SIA Berlin (2022-2024)
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