Romeo Meyer

Romeo Meyer (born May 29, 1978 in Basel ) is a Swiss actor .

life and work

Romeo Meyer performed at the Theater am Neumarkt , the Theater an der Sihl and the Theater an der Winkelwiese in Zurich during his acting training at the University of Music and Theater Zurich . In the 2002/03 season he played in Bern, Aarau and Basel, among others, in the world premiere of Guy Krnetas Zmittst im Gjätt uss (director: Ursina Greuel) and in the Swiss premiere of Marie Brassard's solo piece Jimmy, Traumgeschöpf (director: Thomas Blubacher ) which could be seen in Dornach, Bern, Basel and at the Schauspielhaus Zürich .

From 2003 to 2006 he was a member of the ensemble of the Landestheater Tübingen , where he played among others as Petrell in Ferdinand Bruckner's Disease of Youth and as Julien in Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt's Hotel zu den zwei Welten (each directed by Jochen Fölster), as Azor in Marivaux 's Der Streit (Director: Cilli Drexel) and appeared in the solo piece, which he helped develop, The Secret of the Maultasche (Director: Michael Miensopust). In addition, he was a crowd favorite Heidi in the regular ensemble of Wenzel Banneyer's Spiel ohne Grenzen there until 2008 and continues to play regularly with Volker Quandt's Tübingen theater sports ensemble. In 2006/07 he was at the Theater Die Tonne in Reutlingen in the title roles of Franz Lehár's operetta Der Moderne Mitislaw and Stravinsky's The Story of the Soldier and played the narrator, Leon and Lheureux in Flaubert's Madame Bovary (director: Carl-Herbert Brown).

From 2007 to 2012 he was part of the ensemble of the St. Gallen Theater . Here he appeared as Peter in the Swiss premiere of David Gieselmann's Die Plantage (director: Dana Csapo), in the stage version of Max Frisch's Homo Faber (director: Tim Kramer), as Napoleon Locher in the world premiere of Bruno Pellandini's bear hunt (director : Elisabeth Gabriel), as Benvolio in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (director: Þorleifur Örn Arnarsson ), as a fool in Shakespeare's Was ihr wollt (director: Marcelo Diaz), as Tom in Neil LaBute's Fettes Schwein (director: Veit Güssow), as Nick in Edward Albees Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Director: Elisabeth Grabiel) and as Herbert Stein in the Swiss premiere of Peter Turrini 's Silvester (Director: Thilo Voggenreiter). In 2007 he played Ernst-Ludwig in Kander / Ebbs Musical Cabaret (director: Cusch Jung), in 2010 alongside the Pfister siblings as Henri O. Luginbühl in the crook musical Bibi Balù (director: Stefan Huber ).

Romeo Meyer has been a freelance actor, improviser, presenter and singer since 2012. He was a guest a. at Theater St. Gallen (2013 steward in Richard Strauss ' Ariadne auf Naxos , 2015 Officer Krupke in Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story , 2016 Captain Bordure in Alfred Jarry's König Ubu ), at Theater Die Tonne in Reutlingen (2013 Ari Leschnikoff in Comedian- Harmonists-Revue Ein Freund, ein gute ... , 2014 in the solo recital Mensch Meyer! ) And at the Theater Kanton Zürich (2015 Lancelot in the world premiere of Stephen Benson's musical Falling in Love ).

In 2015 and 2016 he gave the Jean-Rémy in the world premiere of the musical Io Senza Te at Theater 11 in Zurich , which was awarded the Prix ​​Walo for the best stage production of the year in 2016 (director: Stefan Huber ). Also under Huber's direction, he was seen at the Bad Hersfeld Festival in 2017 and 2018 as John Jacob Astor in Maury Yeston's and Peter Stone's musical Titanic and in 2019 as Renaldi in the musical Funny Girl by Jule Styne, Isobel Lennart and Bob Merrill.

He belongs to the ensemble of Theater Fallalpha Zurich (2017 in the world premiere of Tina Müller's Dickhäuter, awarded the Mülheimer KinderStückePreis 2017, 2019 in the world premiere of Tina Müller's Schoggilänke ) and is a regular guest at Theater Rigiblick Zurich (2017 in Tribute to Elton John, 2018 in Respect! Tribute to the Greatest Soul Divas , 2019 as Kaiser in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus).

In addition, he took on minor roles in the TV series Lüthi and Blanc and in the TV film Vaterjagd, played Dr. Silversmith in Marcel Gisler's film Aus dem Schatten and appeared in numerous children's radio plays on the CD label Chinderwält . He also made a name for himself as a slam poet.

literature

• Thomas Blubacher : "Humor requires great seriousness". Romeo Meyer in conversation . In: Ensemble No. 66 (2009), pp. 7-11.