Mercy Dorcas Otieno, born 1987 in Nairobi (Kenya), studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna from 2013 to 2017. Before that she studied sociology at the Karl-Franzens-Universität in Graz and worked as an au-pair in Germany and Austria from 2006 on. Her first permanent engagement took her to the Schauspielhaus Graz under Iris Laufenberg in the 2017/2018 season. She has worked with directors such as Volker Hesse, Lily Sykes, Dominic Friedel and Nina Gühlstorff. Since the 2018/2019 season she is a member of the ensemble of Schauspielhaus Bochum.
Current roles:
- Gertrud in Hamlet
 
Past roles:
- Der Bus nach Dachau
 - Baroque
 - Der Dovre-Alte / Anitra in Peer Gynt
 - Farida Mtamakosi , Text , Director , Stage design in Who the F*** are you
 - Wo steht dein Maulbeerbaum?
 - Tebaldea in Lorenzaccio
 - Die Hoffnung in Hoffen und Sehnen / Umut ve Özlem / Nadzieja i tęsknota
 - With in Die Befristeten
 - Episode 1 in Aus der Rolle fallen
 - Die unglaubliche Geschichte vom kleinen Roboterjungen
 - Audrey / Marie-Françoise in Plattform / Unterwerfung
 - O, Augenblick
 - Wie es euch Algorithmus.
 - Robinson in Me, a Robinson.
 - Alle Jahre wieder
 - Audrey in Plattform
 - Marie-Françoise in Unterwerfung
 
									Baroque Mercy Dorcas Otieno
© Fred Debrock
									Peer Gynt: Mercy Dorcas Otieno, Anna Drexler (from left)
© Matthias Horn
									Mercy Dorcas Otieno
© Birgit Hupfeld
									Mercy Dorcas Otieno
© Birgit Hupfeld
									Mercy Dorcas Otieno
© JU Bochum