Larisa Faber was born in Romania, grew up in Luxembourg and trained in the U.K. at Drama Centre London.

Her acting credits in film, television and theatre include period features, TV series, classical and contemporary plays, physical theatre, devised work and site-specific productions. She works across Europe in five languages (English, German, French, Luxembourgish & Romanian). Larisa is represented by Agentur Peter Fley in Cologne, Germany. Acting credits here.

She devises her own work, writing for the stage and screen, mainly in English. Her writing has explored ageing, female reproductive choices and migration. She loves odd humour and weird musicals. Her plays have been performed in Luxembourg, Germany, Lithuania and the U.K. Plays include: Disko Dementia (2018, MASKéNADA), stark bollock naked (2019-2022, neimënster / Camden People’s Theatre London), 340x as part of Die neuen Todsünden (2021-2022, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe / Théâtre National du Luxembourg / Uppsala stadsteater), Papercut (2022, Mierscher Kulturhaus), GOOD GIRLS (2022, Théâtre d’Esch Luxembourg / Kaunas City Chamber Theatre Lithuania / Camden People’s Theatre London). Her short film If We Smarten Up won numerous awards, including Best Short Film at Festival Internacional de Cine Cuena and the Best Female Actor Award for lead actor Coca Bloos at Festival du Film Court de Villeurbanne.

Published work: stark bollock naked (Black Fountain Press, as part of High Five!), To My One And Only Daughter (monologue, Les Cahiers Luxembourgeois), On Playwriting (mostly) (multimedia essay, Centre National de Littérature).

Larisa spoke to Caroline Gillet on France Inter‘s Foule Continentale about access to abortion. Click here to listen to the broadcast.

NEWS: 2023 TOUR
stark bollock naked
25-26 FEBRUARY at VAULT Festival, London
9-11 MARCH at neimënster, Luxembourg

GOOD GIRLS
1&3 MARCH, Kaunas City Chamber Theatre
2 MARCH, Arts Printing House Vilnius

 

 

 

 

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