Description

Born in Zurich.
Education: Realgymnasium Zurich / Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia (USA).
Specialization in Political Theater.

Assistant director alongside several directors in New York, Brussels, Berlin, Vienna, and Geneva…

Collective projects of theatrical and performative experiments with Theatercombinat in Vienna and Berlin.

2000: Founded the sturmfrei Company in Geneva. More than 50 shows, performances, multidisciplinary, and multimedia forms.

Exploration of contemporary writing, including Heiner Müller, Peter Handke, Elfriede Jelinek, Sarah Kane, Allen Ginsberg, Marguerite Duras, Mathieu Bertholet, Sofie Kokaj, Antoinette Rychner…, as well as classics such as Aeschylus, William Shakespeare, Franz Schubert,…

From 2014-2020: Authored and edited four publications: ON SPACE (2014), ON BODY (2016), ON SOUND (2019), ON TIME (2020).

2016: Wrote and directed an essay film on the tragedy of Gibellina in Sicily: RISS / FÊLURE / CREPA (35 min).
2021: Directed the film FLiRT(s), 12′, with workers from the Val de Sambre workshops in northern France.

From 2006-2012: Co-Director of GRÜ / Transthéâtre Geneva. Invented new platforms for research, encounters, and pluri- and transdisciplinary creations. Established an unprecedented artistic laboratory, fostering exchanges between the international and local spheres. Launched several festivals under the name TRANS.

2011 and 2014: Curator of the Festival on Performance Art: JETER SON CORPS DANS LA BATAILLE.
2015: Co-Curator of the Festival on Aktionskunst, BONE 17 in Bern.
2022: Associate Curator at the ITAK Festival, Manège Maubeuge.

From 2006-2008: Associate Artist at Théâtre Saint-Gervais Geneva.
From 2011-2012: Associate Artist at GRÜ / Transthéâtre Geneva.
From 2020-2022: Associate Artist at Manège Maubeuge, national and transnational stage.

Regularly invited as an artist and director in various higher theater schools in Switzerland and Europe (HETSR La Manufacture Lausanne, Royal Conservatory of Mons in Belgium, TNB in Rennes, ENSATT Lyon); at the universities of Nantes, Bern, Sorbonne, Montpellier in the field of theater and performance. Speaker at numerous platforms and professional gatherings on post-dramatic theater, performance, and new forms and aesthetics.

Recipient of several grants, including the Dr. René Liechti grant for specific research on Elfriede Jelinek, Pro Helvetia for Theatertreffen in Berlin and artistic research, and the Simon I. Patiño grant for a one-year residency at an artist’s studio in Paris (Cité Internationale des Arts).