Christoph Keller

Christoph Keller was born 1986 in Bern. He graduated at Bern Univerity of the Arts as “Bachelor of Arts in Theatre” in 2008 and earned his “Master of Arts in Theater” in 2011 also at the BUAS. 

He is co-artistic director and actor of the drama group PENG! Palast. With the groups own play „Woyzeckmaschine“ he won PPREMIO (2009) the Swiss award for young drama and dance talents.

In 2016 the feature film “the holycoaster s(HIT) circus” (by PENG! Palast), where he was acting and co-writing, won the Bern Film Prize and was invited to the Hamburg and Solothurn Filmfest. 

Besides his work with “PENG! Palast” he works with different groups and artistic directors in divers plays. Amongst others  in „Materhorn Story“ (Livia Ann-Richard), „FAUST Exhausted“  (TART-produktion), „Tod Meiner Stadt“ (Daniela Janjic), „Romeo & Julia“ (Livio Andraina), „Vermisst my Boy Jack“ (Markus Keller), „Schauspielerbeschimpfung, findet nicht statt“ (VA Wölfel). Recently he had also apperences in cinema and televison produktions as, „The Circle “(Stefan Haupt), Tatort „Verfolgt“  (Tobias Ineichen), „Kursverlust“ (Barbara Kulcsar), „Vatertjagt“ (Rahel Grunder). Alongside his work as actor he also enjoys to work as producer, director and author in his own plays like „Cockroach“ and his comedy trio “RÄCHT EXTREM”. 

He was chosen “young talent 2009” by the casting agents Susanna Müller and Corinna Claus. 

In 2015 he was selected by Prohelvetia to join “Le Séminare en Avignon”. 

In 2016 he received the scholarship „OFF-Stage“ of the Kanton Bern.