Actor

Jesse Mensah

Jesse Mensah (1993) has joined the ITA Ensemble in 2021.

In season 23|24 he will perform in the revivals of Lehman Trilogy, The Hours, Birds of a kind, Penthesilea and Judas.

C.V.


Jesse Mensah is an actor, dancer, singer and presenter. Since graduating from the Academy of Theatre in Amsterdam, Jesse performed in many theatre productions in The Netherlands and presented a renowned children’s television program Willem Wever. Jesse also plays parts in on screen productions, for example in the remarkable series Anne+. In 2020 Jesse is nominated for the Louis d’Or, the award for best male lead of the season for the production Weg met Eddy Belleguele.

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AWARDS
2021
| nomination Louis d'Or | Weg met Eddy Bellegueule at Toneelschuur Producties

WORK OUTSIDE ITA


2021

Dienstmeid #2 | Roxanne Stam
Verdriet is een ding met veren | Theater Rotterdam

2020
Nieuw zeer | NTR:
ANNE+ | Millstreet Films
Klem | BNNVARA
Weg met Eddy Bellegueule | Toneelschuur Producties
Liefdesziek | Toneelgroep Oostpool

2019
The Equivalent | Acacia Traynor
Zwart water | NNT
Ilias | Orkater/De Nieuwkomers, KONVOOI

2018
Flikken Maastricht | AVROTROS
Mensendagen | Coen Eigenraam, Jeroen van 't Hullenaar
Platonov | Theater Utrecht
Thuislozen | Theater Utrecht
De meeuw | NNT

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2017
Ein Lekkerding | Florian Froschmayer
2017: A Press Conference | Jordi Wijnalda
Lear | Toneelmakerij
De verbeelde stad | Over het IJ

2016
Centraal Medisch Centrum | RTL
Een soort Hades | Theater Utrecht
Fort Europa | Amsterdamse Toneelschool

2015
Stad der blinden | Theater Utrecht

2014
De laatste vriend van Napoleon | Ruut Weissman

2013
De nachtmis | Circus Treurdier

2012
Romans 3:23 | Charles A. Kennedy Jr., Zell Towners

SHOWS

Language NP Language no problem penthesilea ITA Ensemble Theater penthesilea
Close penthesilea ITA Ensemble / Eline Arbo
In this searing drama about a fatal love, a blistering passion churns unstoppably to the surface.
Language NP Language no problem Lehman Trilogy ITA Ensemble Theater Lehman Trilogy
Close Lehman Trilogy ITA Ensemble / Guy Cassiers
Slavery and industrialisation, war and new technological developments: no matter what is happening in America and even worldwide, the Lehmans always know how to make good money from it.
Language NP Language no problem The Hours
ITA Ensemble Theater The Hours
Close The Hours ITA Ensemble / Eline Arbo
Eline Arbo brings De uren (The Hours), the novel by Michael Cunningham, to the stage.
Language NP Language no problem Judas ITA Ensemble Theater Judas
Close Judas ITA Ensemble / Robert Icke
The name Judas is familiar to many of us. The traitor. The scorned man. A man condemned century after century for his cunning cowardice and who to this day deserves no pardon - or - is that perhaps half a story?
Language NP Language no problem Birds of a Kind ITA Ensemble Theater Birds of a Kind
Close Birds of a Kind ITA Ensemble / Alize Zandwijk
When the German-Jewish Eitan and the American-Arab Wahida happen to meet in the library of New York, they fall in love instantly. But is their relationship likely to succeed against the backdrop of the decades-long Israeli-Arab conflict?