Profile

​Tessa Hart {they/she} is a Culture & Change Maker in performing arts, film & socio-cultural fields, who has lived in Berlin, Brussels and London. Currently Tessa is the Director of AfroPolitan Berlin, Artistic Director of the transcultural collective Goblin Baby Co., part of the selection committee of the Max Ophüls Preis film festival, and part of the IKARUS Nomination Jury (Children & Youth Theatre Award). Tessa has also worked artistically and organisationally for numerous performance, film and cultural projects as well as co-founded The Bread & Roses Theatre in London, and serving as its Co-Director for seven years. As an author, Tessa has contributed to Schwarz wird großgeschrieben, Sisters & Souls 2, Hear Me Now - Audition Monologues for Actors of Colour, the online magazine Rosa-Mag, and several theatre plays.
Topics that Tessa particularly engages with right now are sustainable cultural change, equal opportunities, participation, empowerment, intersectionality, power- and discrimination-criticism, queerness, Black identities & communities, neurodiversity, trauma-transformation, personal power & potential as well as authenticity.

Enquiries

Activities

• ​Curation & programming of performance, film & cultural projects
• Spoken Word / Readings / Performances
• Speaker / Panellist
• Keynotes
• Moderation / Presentation
• Empowerment, participation & resilience workshops
• Author / Writer

Focus

• Conception, development and curation/programming of (new) cultural projects as well as conceiving revised, power- & discrimination-critical structures.
• Participation and empowerment of people who have to experience structural discrimination, and who are socially and culturally excluded from equal opportunities
• Artistic practice that explores and develops processes, approaches and results that think beyond the status quo and dissolve the confines of conventional art practice.

Studies / 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 Stages - Contemporary Afropean Theatre and Performance"

References (selection)

• ​​Kultur- & Kreativpilot*innen, u-institut für unternehmerisches Denken und Handeln e.V.
• ProQuote Film
• International Film Festival Braunschweig
• Filmfest Dresden
• Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste
• JugendKulturService gGmbH
• Branchentreff der freien darstellenden Künste
• Performing Arts Festival Berlin, LAFT Berlin Landesverband freie darstellende Künste Berlin e.V.
• Berliner Theatertreffen
• Nationaltheater Mannheim
• Alte Feuerwache e.V., Jugendbildungsstätte Kaubstraße​​ 
• Integrationsbeirat Friedrichshains-Kreuzberg, Kotti e.V.
• D/Arts - Projektbüro für Diversität & urbanen Dialog​​

• ​SuperPower Autismus Spektrum, Lukulule – Musik und Tanz für Jugend e.V.
• afro-Festival Heidelberg, Migration Sphere Heidelberg e.V.
• ​Black Reels Film Festival, Black Art Action Berlin
• ​Afrika Medien Zentrum
• ​Afrika Akademie - Schwarze Volkshochschule
• ADAN e.V.- Afrodeutsches Akdemiker Netzwerk
• ​WOW - Women of the World Festival, Southbank Centre
• Beyond the Canon, RADA - Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
• Writing Beyond Genres & Borders, North London Literary Festival, Middlesex University
• BA Drama, BA Creative Writing, Greenwich University
• Artistic Directors of the Future, Theatre Royal Stratford East, UK National Theatre
• Hear Me Now Workshop, Tamasha Theatre Company​
• Les best de l'humour, Hippodrome Casino Cabaret Theatre​
• ​Instituto Cervantes, Humboldt-Universität

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Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis (Curation & Speaker)

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​Filmfest Dresden (Moderation, English)

D/Arts (Presentation & Panellist)

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Book-Launch Sisters & Souls 2. (Spoken Word Performance)

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​Branchentreff der freien darstellenden Künste -
"Normalität" - (Moderation, German, Radio)

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Integrationsbeirat Friedrichshains-Kreuzberg @ Kotti e.V. (Moderation, German)

Auf YouTube ansehen

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Performing Arts Festival Berlin & Berliner Theatertreffen (Moderation, German)

in Mediathek ansehen