KEVIN HANSSEN
HEIGHT: 1,72m
HAIR: Sandy brown
EYES: Blue
LANGUAGES: English, read French
SKILLS:
– Performance: Acting, Musician (sax, guitar, vocals)
– Presentation, Public Speaking
– Teaching
– Improvisation and group work coach
– Graphic Design
– Layout Design
– Sound Design
– Audiobook production
– Creative and ideas collaboration
– Writing
– Video editing
– Publishing (audio and text)
WRITING
BOOKS
- Jump Theatre – How to make a play. (Author, Graphic and Layout Designer) Africalia and Jump Productions
- Practical Criticism for A-Level Students of Literature (Co-editor). Weaver Press
THEATRE
- Kalanga!
- The Last Days
- A Tree Called Harold
- A Night At The Opera
- Co-writer on Born African, The Anti-Panto, The Anti-Panto 0.75, and
- Completely Over the Edge with Over the Edge Theatre Company
SOUND DESIGN
AUDIOBOOKS
DIRECTOR and EDITOR
Monty Python’s Autobiography: The Pythons on the Pythons, Orion Publishing
The Jason Bourne Series by Robert Ludlum, Orion Publishing
The Somme by Peter Hart, Orion Publishing
Das Boot by Lothar Gunthar Buchheim, Orion Publishing
Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore, Orion Publishing
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, Faber and Faber
and many, many more
SOUND DESIGN/RECORDIST
Sound recording and design for Across the Grasslands (short film), Shapiru Productions, dir. Sharon Lee (Winner of Best Zimbabwe Short and Best Short at IIFF 2016)
Sound recordist for Within a Village Lies (ICAPA Productions)
Sound Design for The 39 Steps, Reps Theatre
Sound Design for The Convert, written by Danai Gurira, Harare Production.
Sound Design for Dickens – The Master Storyteller, International tour.
RADIO DRAMA
Director, Editor, Producer: KwaTaffy, Studio 7 – Voice of America
Director, Editor: Ribro Banda, Ende Futi and Chema. Three five-part radio dramas for 3 Mob Presents
GRAPHIC DESIGN AND LAYOUT
- Slide design for corporate presentation
- Poster, flyer design for print and web
- Layout design for books
PERFORMANCE AWARDS
- I’m Not Rappaport (Actor): BAT Best Supporting Actor, Zimbabwe (1993)
- Twelfth Night (Actor): Pick of the Fringe Award, Edinburgh Festival, UK (2001)
- Born African (Actor, Writer): Spirit of the Fringe Award, Edinburgh Festival, UK (2003)
- Miss Julie (Actor): BAT Best Actor Award, Zimbabwe (2010)
- An Inspector Calls (Actor): AFDIS Best Actor Award, Zimbabwe (2015)
- Mind Games (Actor): Best Actor Award, Zimbabwe International Film Festival, Zimbabwe (2017)
- My Fair Lady (Actor): AFDIS Best Actor Award, Zimbabwe (2017)
Performance Links
Freestate: Short Film
The Impro Show: Improvised Comedy Show
A Tree To Sing To: African Folktale Puppet Show
Over the Edge (Wikipedia): International touring Theatre Company
ACTING CREDITS
FILM
| Mugabe | Supporting | dir. Robert Peters, Eastgate Films |
| Wosaka (docu-drama) | Supporting | dir. Scott Reed, Fatdog Media Productions |
| Ghosts of Actions Past (short) | Supporting | dir. Tavonga Gozo |
| The Telling Room (in prod) | Lead | dir. Duncan Frost, Mudbug Films |
| Love and Dance | Supporting | dir. Denise Edwards, Innvision Films (DSTV) |
| Zim Promo (short) | Lead | dir. Nico Abote, ZTN |
| Cook Off | Supporting | dir. Tomas Brickhill, Mufambanidzo Films (Netflix) |
| Mind Games | Lead | dir. Charles Mawungwa, Reelnet Films |
| Krotoa | Featured Extra | dir. Roberta Durrant, Penguin Films |
| Freestate (short) | Lead | dir. Martha Ferguson, Portable Sky Productions |
| Across the Grasslands (short) | Supporting | dir. Sharon Lee, Shapriru Productions |
| ZimHigh | Supporting | dir. Tatenda Mbudzi, Mbudzi Productions |
TELEVISION
| Over the Edge (Pilot) | Lead | dir. Steve Hanly, Image Factory |
| Dinner Only (Pilot) | Lead | dir. The Impro Show, Jump Productions |
| Zambezi News | Various | dir. Kevin Hanssen, Magamba Network |
THEATRE
| Born African | Lead | dir. Zane E. Lucas, Tour (Edinburgh, USA, Zimbabwe) |
| My Fair Lady | Lead | dir. Sue Bolt, Reps Theatre |
| Dickens – The Master Storyteller | Lead | dir. Kevin Hanssen & Mark West, (African Tour, UK) |
| A Man Like You | Lead | dir. Silvia Cassini, (African Tour, Hong Kong) |
| King Baabu | Support | dir. Sarah Norman, Edinburgh Festival (UK) |
| Me and My Friend | Lead | dir. Mel Hooley, Dorchester Arts/Somerleigh Players (UK) |
| Twelfth Night | Lead | dir. Adam Neill, Tour (USA, Europe) |
| The Rabbi From Tarsus | Lead | dir. Kevin Hanssen & Danai Gurira, Tour (Norway, UK, HIFA) |
| Oleanna | Lead | dir. Kevin Hanssen, Edinburgh Festival (UK) |
| Eternal Peace Asylum | Lead | dir. Lucian Msamati, Edinburgh Festival (UK) |
| Zimbabwe Improv Team | Lead | World Improv Championships (Germany) |
| Miss Julie | Lead | dir. Per Fosser, Reps Theatre |
| Complete Works of Shakespeare (abridged) (twice) | Lead | dir. Over the Edge, 7 Arts Theatre dir. Jamie McLaren, Reps Theatre |
| Doubt | Lead | dir. Mel Hooley, Dorchester Arts (UK) |
| Much Ado About Nothing | Lead | dir. John Dennison, Reps Theatre |
| The 39 Steps | Lead | dir. Sue Bolt and Fiona Garrity, Reps Theatre |
| The Disappearing Man | Lead | dir. Roger Hawkins, HIFA |
| Comrades | Lead | dir. Patiences Tawengwa, Stockholms Improvisationsteater (Sweden) |
| Macbeth | Support | dir. Sarah Norman, Over the Edge |
| Blood Brothers | Lead | dir. Dawn Parkinson, Reps Theatre |
| Lost in Yonkers | Lead | dir. Gloria Prentice, Reps Theatre |
| Brighton Beach Memoirs | Lead | dir. Gloria Prentice, Reps Theatre |
| Les Femmes Savant | Support | dir. Di Wilson, Alliance Francaise |
| The Anti Panto & The Anti Panto 0.5 | Lead | dir. Di Wilson, 7 Arts |
| A Tree To Sing To | Lead | dir. Kevin Hanssen, HIFA |
| An Inspector Calls | Lead | dir. Anne Fischer, Reps Theatre |
| Great Expectations | Lead | dir. Adrian Stanley, Reps Theatre |
| I’m Not Rappaport | Support | dir. Gloria Prentice, Reps Theatre |
| Wife Begins at Forty | Support | dir. Adrian Stanley, Reps Theatre |
AUDIOBOOKS
NARRATOR
The Teeth of Giants, by Gordon Wallis
Marked For Life by Paul Templer and Rebecca M. Simons
The Last Resort by Douglas Rogers
The Somme, by Peter Hart
Cape Town to Kilimanjaro: The Third World As Seen From The Saddle, by Eric de Jong
Fun Dad, by Hein Bester
L(E)arn Bitcoin, by Anita Posch
DIRECTING CREDITS
TELEVISION
| Zambezi News | Seasons 2, 3, 4, 5 | Magamba Network |
THEATRE
| A Tree To Sing To | HIFA, Jump Productions | |
| Kalanga! | HIFA, Kellogg Foudation | |
| A Midsummer African Dream | HIFA, Theory X Productions | |
| The Impro Show | Reps Theatre, Jump Productions | |
| Sorry, Wrong Number | Reps Theatre, Activators | |
| The Last Days | Northside Church | |
| Oleanna | Edinburgh Festival, Jump Productions |
RADIO
Kwataffy – 34 part radio series for Studio 7, Voice of America.
TRAINING
1994-6 – Bachelor of Arts (English, Industrial Psychology), UNISA, South Africa
1994-6 – Teacher Training Certificate – Primary Education – Gateway Teacher Training Programme.
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