Marie Schleef

I am a Berlin-based theater director whose work focuses on the unknown, the forgotten and the unseen. I am particularly interested in staging texts by women that have not yet been performed.

I studied Theatre and Performance at Bard College, New York and directing at the “Ernst Busch” Academy of Dramatic Arts, Berlin. Subsequently, I worked as an assistant director at the Volksbühne Berlin.

My work has been performed at Volksbühne Berlin, Ballhaus Ost, Kosmos Theater, Schauspiel Köln, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Münchner Kammerspiele, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Burgtehater Wien and Schauspielhaus Zürich. It has been invited to Körber Studio für Junge Regie, Radikal Jung, ATT at Deutsches Theater and Theatertreffen. Additonally, I have been awarded the CHANEL Next Prize, as one of ten innovative artists world-wide, and the Kurt-Hübner-Regiepreis.