About Me
I’m a theatre artist working with puppets, objects and the imagination of the audience. I create situations where ordinary things take on unexpected lives, leaving room for people to bring their own memories, associations and meanings.
My work moves between intimate solo shows, participatory performance formats and encounters in public space. I use humour, surprise and play to explore personal, social and political questions.
My shows are regularly invited to festivals and venues all over the world. I teach masterclasses in different institutions, as well as mentor and accompany fellow artists’ creations as an outside eye and director. Based in Germany.
Selected experience
Solo work
Plastic Heroes · The Cat Paradox · Boxed · Pinhas
Selected festivals & venues
FMTM Charleville-Mézières (Programme IN) · Internationales Figurentheater-Festival Erlangen · FIDENA · Aranya Performing Arts Festival China · FIAMS, Québec · FIGURA · Théâtre National Brussels · Festival de la Cité, Lausanne · MIMA · Titirimundi · MANIPULATE, Edinburgh · at.tension · SIPF, Tokyo ·
* Plastic Heroes has been performing for over ten years, around 300 times in more than 30 countries so far,
receiving multiple awards for best show, best animation and audience favourite.
Directing Work
For theatres such as
Elbphilharmonie and Staatsoper Hamburg · tjg. Dresden · Schauburg München · Junge Nationaltheatre Mannheim ·
* My shows Visiting Hour is Over and Alarm in the Petting Zoo were selected from hundreds of shows for Augenblick mal, Germany's biennale for outstanding theatre for young audiences.
Teaching & Masterclasses
To students of universities such as
HMDK Stuttgart · UQAM, Montréal · DAMU, Prague · Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London · National Theatre Academy Wrocław · NATFA, Sofia · Animateria, Italy ·
Professional workshops
Meteor Performing Arts Festival, Tokyo · ASSITEJ Luxembourg · BAFF, Basel · Théâtre de Cuisine, La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille · Teatro São Luiz, Lisbon · MIMA, Mirepoix · Recidives, Normandie ·
Youth theatre mentoring
Staatsschauspiel Dresden (First prize in the UNart competition) · Deutsches Theater Berlin ·
Outside eye / Artistic collaboration
Tangram Kollektiv (DE/FR) · Compagnie Bakélite (FR) · Théâtre Gudule (FR) · Merlin Puppetry (GR/DE) · Florian Feisel (DE) · Cie Kislrod (FR) · Annina Mosimann (CH) · Jill Crovisier / JC (LU) · Rod Burnett (UK) · Lara Epp (DE) · Maxim Gorki Berlin (Developing puppetry for a production) ·
Television
I played Elmo, Grover and different characters in the local version of Sesame Street, as well as playing and using as puppetry advisor to dozens of television productions.
Education
I have a degree in cinema and studied visual arts and puppetry in The School of Visual Theater.
I got advanced training at places such as the Institut International de la Marionette, Charleville-Mézières and CNAC, by teachers such as Agnes Limbos, Neville Tranter & Frank Soehnle, as well as 'Magie Nouvelle' under Raphaël Navarro.