Suramira Vos
Suramira Vos, born in The Hague (NL), grew up in Appenzell (CH), freelance actress, speaker and author based in Bern (CH). She studied acting at the Bern University of the Arts and International Screen Acting at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (DE). In addition to student prizes from the Migros Cultural Foundation and Friedl-Wald Foundation, she received the ‘Adriana Award for Best Actress’ and ‘Best Theatre Production’ at the Skena Up Festival Pristina for ‘7 Days of Ugliness’.
She has appeared on stage as Gloria in ‘They Shoot Horses Don’t They’ (Südpol Luzern, directed by Ursula Hildebrand), as Ismael in Moby Dick (Theaterwerkstatt Frauenfeld, directed by Markus Kelle), as Fairy Queen in ‘The Fairy Queen’ and Anne-Liz in ‘Tür auf, Tür zu’. She plays the leading role in the short film ‘das Velo’ and was seen in ‘Terminal’ and ‘Heart Fruit’ by Kim Allamand.
Her solo ‘Ausbauchen’ about the world of language surrounding the digestive process won the Jungseglerpreis in 2020 and toured 20 small theatres in Switzerland. In 2023, she spent six months on an ‘Artist in (Weather and Language) Wandering’ programme with a studio grant from Ausserrhodische Kulturstiftung, walking and writing her way along the South West Coast Path in England. She enjoys cold forest bathing.