Bio
Llewellyn Reichman was born in Berlin, Germany. She studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts from 2012 to 2016 and during this time joined the acting group „The Family“ under the direction of Wojciech Kosma which performed at locations such as Gallery Sinne in Helsinki, the Art Gallery Kamm in Berlin, the Chisenhale Gallery in London as well as at international festivals such as the Oslo European Festival.
In 2014 Llewellyn was invited by the curator Jeanne Graff to perform together with Anne Imhof, John Armleder and Anne Dressenby as part of the group exhibition by the Gallery 186f Kepler at the Art Basel.
In 2016 Llewellyn took part in the GALA Performance of Jerome Bell at the Biennale in Wiesbaden as well as The Mousonturm in Frankfurt/Main.
At the same time as Llewellyn was performing classical female roles such as Elisabeth from Valois, Antigone or Gretchen during her employment with the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden from 2016 to 2019 she also founded an art performance collective with the director Sigrid Skoetz at the Art Location Exil Walhalla. These productions experimented with a more radically dramatic staging of plays such as Macbeth oder Hamletmaschine in order to present them in their direct and unadulterated original fashion.
From 2020 to 2023 the full-time employment with the State Theatre in Nuremberg provided Llewellyn with the opportunity to further develop her ability to play challenging and demanding character roles in cooperation with distinguished theatre professionals like Anne Lenk, Andreas Kriegenburg, Johanna Wehner, Jan Philipp Gloger, Joel Kiran and Jan C. Gockel.
Solo Performances
Whilst at Exil Walhalla Llewellyn took the opportunity to develop her own first solo performances which were greatly influenced through the collaboration with the art photographer Simon Hegenberg. Right from the beginning Llewellyn decided to integrate ideas of dystopia, the portrayal of creature like beings as well as gender themed roles into her creations combining poetic and bodily dramatizations.
Inspired by the collage of video imagery together with live performance by the Malaysian musician Tzu Sing Llewellyn set about producing her first solo performance Orlando in 2018. She combined passages of verse from the book of the same name by Virginia Woolf (1928) together with her own text and placed them within a rhythmic and musical, concert like framework. During this 45 minute performance the audience observes the distress of a young individual searching for its identity, experiencing an inherent gender conflict and wrestling to deal with it.
Llewellyn was invited to perform Orlando on several occasions such as at the Young Urban Performance Festival in Osnabrück (2018), the Unframed Festival in Berlin (2019) as well as Atelier Frankfurt (2019) and Z Common Ground in Munich during the 3rd Edit-a-thon at the feminist Mini Festival (2019). In 2021 she was invited to perform Orlando at the Young Theatre Days-Festival in Klaipeda, Lithuania.
Llewellyn’s second solo performance FOOL deals with the nemesis and breaks away from the stereotyped female character role to present the antics of a jester in search of its fate while trying to make headway within the realm of neoliberal political currents. The stage setting for FOOL is provided by Llewellyn’s own production of video imagery mixed together with a sound installation that reinforces the live nature of the unfolding impromptu drama.
As an upcoming young artist Llewellyn received approbation from the Goethe Institute which sponsored the invitation from the curator Mamela Nyamza to perform FOOL at the Vavasati International Women’s Festival in Pretoria, South Africa (2019) as well as the invitation from Jeanne Graff to perform at the Gallery 186f Kepler in Manhattan NY (2019).
Llewellyn’s third solo performance META 2.0 (2020) is based solely on her own writing and consists of a sound collage that mirrors the efforts and limitations in body movement within the realm of both mythological and public discourse on the subject of the new BODY CULT. The use of assets such as foil, plastic and spray paint serve to illustrate the immanent folly in the self-packaging and self-conservation ego trips that are part and parcel of the 21st century’s hyperconsumerism.
Llewellyn’s current performance SIRENS had its premiere during the State Theatre Nuremberg’s Blue Night (2023). In the meantime she has performed SIRENS again at Wiesbaden, Lille, Brussels and also Berlin during the 20th anniversary event of „Restrealität“ at the Berlin Club ://about blank. Following an invitation to international performing artists Llewellyn’s SIRENS was subsequently shown on stage in September 2023 at the Saint Muse Festival in Ulan Bator, Mongolia for which she again received sponsorship from the Goethe Institute.
Music
In collaboration with the label DUAT RECORDS Llewellyn released her first musical productions, CHANGE and BÜRDE under her alias LLEWCCICI. Her musical compositions are based on industrial sounding techno beats interwoven with prose and melodic interludes from the flute. Llewellyn’s experiments with combining poetry and speech fragments together with the classical playing of the flute allow her to delve into new avenues of musical expression.
Ensuing from her soundtrack BÜRDE Llewellyn produced a special accompanying performance which was filmed and shown at the inauguration of the exhibition 5000 YEARS IRAN in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.
For her sound installation accompaniment to Orlando Llewellyn received an audio drama nomination from the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
In 2022 DUAT RECORDS released her latest music video SIGNS with the title track Amaunet.
Film
Apart from various roles in diverse popular television series Llewellyn has also appeared in numerous short films.
Llewellyn participated in collaboration with Florine Leoni and Juan Filipe Amaya Gonzales in the making of the film, „Notes from the dreaming Caracal“. The film premiere was screened at the Kunsthalle Basel on 24 September 2023.
In the Film „Eden 3030“ by Peter and Harriet Meining Llewellyn plays one of the leading roles which premiered in October 2023 at the Hofer Filmtage.
As a film actress Llewellyn is represented by the Agency Spielkind.