Serkan Kaya (actor)

Serkan Kaya (born July 24, 1977 in Leverkusen) is a German actor and musical performer.
==Life==
Serkan Kaya grew up in Germany as the child of Turkish immigrants. He studied acting and musicals at the Folkwang University in Essen from 2000 to 2004. With his band Estonia Fantasies, he performed at the Leverkusen Jazz Days and produced a CD.
His first roles took place in the Neuss Shakespeare Festival and the Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen, where he played Ferdinand, King of Navarre in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost directed by Brian Michels. This was followed by a collaboration with Niels-Peter Rudolph with the role of Count Lasca in The Turk of Venice by Carlo Goldoni.
Kaya's first musical role was that of Emilio in Miami Nights at the Capitol Theater Düsseldorf. Under the direction of Kim Duddy, he played Ren McCormack in Footloose during the Amstetten musical summer.
In Passau he played the role of Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar. In 2005 Kaya was seen in We Will Rock You in Cologne and in Austria, taking a part in Elisabeth as Luigi Lucheni. In addition, he, along with Jessica Kessler, was also in the first cast of Galileo in Zurich and Vienna, while continuing to play the role of Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar at the Aalto Theater in Essen until 2008. In 2008 he played the role of Anatolyin in the musical Chess at the Aalto Theater in Essen. In 2009, Serkan Kaya was seen on stage as Sir Galahad in the German premiere of the musical Monty Python's Spamalot in the Cologne Musical Dome . From 2009 to 2010 he portrayed Che in Evita at the Dortmund City Theater. In December 2009 he played in Vienna at Musical Rocks! From March 2010 he was seen again at the Aalto-Theater Essen as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar and since spring 2010 at the Theater Magdeburg as Bernardo in West Side Story. In the summer of 2010 he was a guest at the Heidelberg Castle Festival in the role of Laertes in Shakespeare's Hamlet. He was also with Musical Rocks! on tour in Germany and Austria. From October 2010 he was at the Staatstheater Kassel in Stephen Sondheim's musical Into the Woods as the Wolf and Prince.
On January 13, 2011, the world premiere of the musical Hinterm Horizont took place in Berlin, in which he played the leading role of Udo Lindenberg . He played this role until the dernière on August 28, 2016 in the Potsdamer Platz. Kaya also appears at musical events, such as The Summer Night of the Musical in Dinslaken (2011, 2012) and Musical Allstars.
In 2021 Kaya won the German Acting Award for his comedic role in KBV - No Special Incidents.
==Stage roles==
* 2002: Miami Nights in Düsseldorf (as Emilio)
* 2003–2005: Elisabeth in Vienna (as Luigi Lucheni)
* 2004–2006: We Will Rock You in Cologne (as Galileo Figaro)
* 2004: Footloose - Musical Summer Amstetten (as Ren Macormack)
* 2005: Jesus Christ Superstar in Vienna (as Judas)
* 2006–2008: Jesus Christ Superstar in Essen (as Judas)
* 2006–2007: We Will Rock You in Zurich, (premiere cast, as Galileo Figaro)
* 2008: We Will Rock You in Vienna, (premiere cast, as Galileo Figaro)
* 2008: Chess in Essen (as Anatoly)
* 2009: Spamalot in Cologne (as Sir Galahad)
* 2009–2010: Chess in Essen (as Anatoly Sergievsky)
* 2009–2010: Evita in Dortmund (as Che)
* 2009: Musical Rocks! in Vienna
* 2010: Jesus Christ Superstar in Essen (as Judas)
* 2010: West Side Story in Magdeburg (as Bernardo)
* 2010: Into the Woods in Kassel
* 2010: Musical Rocks! in Austria and Germany
* 2011–2016: Behind the Horizon in Berlin at Potsdamer Platz (as Udo Lindenberg)
* 2015: Hamburg Royal - the Hamburg Musical in Hamburg at the St. Pauli Theater (as Hansen)
* 2017: Romeo & Juliet in Berlin (as Father Lorenzo)
* 2018: Jesus Christ Superstar in Gelsenkirchen (as Judas)
==Discography==
* We Will Rock You - Original Cast Cologne 2005
* Jesus Christ Superstar - Concert Cast Vienna 2005
* Elisabeth - Original Cast Album Vienna 2006
* The Ring - Studio Cast 2007
* Beyond the Horizon - Original Cast Album Berlin 2011
* Hamburg Royal - Original Cast Hamburg 2015
==Filmography==
* 2009: Pastewka (TV series) (1 episode)
* 2012: Alarm for Cobra 11 (TV series)
* 2014: The Detectives
* 2014: Simply Inseparable (30 episodes)
* 2015: Planet Ottakring
* 2017: Maria Mafiosi
* 2017: Lux – Warriors of Light (movie)
* 2018: The First Name
* 2019: The Bull and the Beast (TV series, 1 episode)
* since 2019: Other Parents (TV series)
* 2019: The King of Cologne
* 2019: Between Two Hearts (TV film)
* 2020: Inside – Everyone is the same on the internet
* 2020: Schwarzach 23 and the murderous self
* 2020: Uncertain – All the best for the future
* 2021: KBV – No Special Incidents (TV series)
* 2021: The Air We Breathe (TV Movie)
* 2022: Trapped Society
* 2023: The Peacock
Category:1977 births
Category:People from Leverkusen
Category:German people
Category:Actors
Category:Music performance