Ricky May-Wolsdorff

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Ricky May-Wolsdorff (* 1963 as Ricky May ) is an Austrian actress and director .

Life

May received her acting training with a state degree from Dorothea Neff and Eva Zilcher, among others . She completed her training in dance as a stage subject before the Austrian Joint Examination Commission and also studied singing with Ingrid Olofsson and Ruth Bormann .

She is married to the director Peter Wolsdorff and has one daughter. After the wedding she took the name May-Wolsdorff .

Act

theatre

At the age of 18 she became a member of the ensemble at the Theater in der Josefstadt . Its first premiere took place at the Kammerspiele in Vienna in 1983.

Together with the film actor Hans Holt and the castle actress Gusti Wolf , she was seen in the role of Myrtle Mae in the comedy "My friend Harvey" by Mary Chase. Further engagements took her to the Volkstheater Wien , the Staatstheater Stuttgart , the Schauspielbühnen Stuttgart and the Landestheater Niederösterreich , where she also played leading roles.

May was involved in several music productions, including the role of Judy Garland in the Austrian premiere of the musical Judy by Terry Wale . In the opera A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten , she played the role of the puck at the Stadttheater St. Pölten .

As part of her commitment to theater plays with socio-political content, she founded as european grouptheater and the ART FOR FUTURE theater . In the Austrian premiere of the monodrama “Spoonface Steinberg” by Lee Hall, she played the autistic, cancer- stricken child Sponnface and was proposed for this performance by Romuald Pekny for the Kainz Medal .

May-Wolsdorff developed his own teaching method MULTI ART AGOGIK (R) and headed the youth culture promotion project european grouptheater, youth theater company for 8 years . Within this work she advocated violence prevention and international understanding.

watch TV

She played in television productions for ORF in the series Tatort (episode Des Glückes Rohstoff ) and in the German TV series Moselbrück .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive 1923/1924 - 1997/1998. Retrieved February 22, 2019 .
  2. ^ Les Watanabe - Department of Theater and Dance. Retrieved February 22, 2019 (American English).
  3. ↑ Acting. Retrieved February 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ MultiArtAgogik®. Retrieved February 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ european group theater - Hilmar Grundmann: Nathan the Wise by GE Lessing. In: Federal Ministry for Education. european grouptheater, 2012, accessed on February 22, 2019 (German).
  6. ^ Action against anti-Semitism in Austria. Retrieved February 22, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Sascha Imme: OFDb.de - The online film database. Retrieved February 22, 2019 .
  8. ^ OFDb - Cast and crew from Moselbrück [TV series] (1987). Retrieved February 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME May-Wolsdorff, Ricky
ALTERNATIVE NAMES May, Ricky (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1963