Laura Linnenbaum

Laura Linnenbaum, born in 1986, studied directing at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. She has worked as a freelance director since the 2011/12 season. At the same time she was an assistant director and a fellow of the regieSTUDIO at Schauspiel Frankfurt, where she created several productions, among them collaborations with Gerhild Steinbuch.

In 2016 she was curator and artistic director of the theatre meeting “Unentdeckte Nachbarn” in Chemnitz, as part of which she staged “Beate Uwe Uwe Selfie Klick” (Heidelberger Stückemarkt, youth jury prize at the WILDWECHSEL festival in Dresden) at the Figurentheater Chemnitz.

In 2015 the journal Theater heute nominated her as best young artist for her production “Silent Noise: Ein Projekt über Sylvia Plath”, and in 2017 as director of the year for the world premiere of “Homohalal”. Ibrahim Amir’s “Homohalal” was also invited to the Heidelberger Stückemarkt 2018 and the Mülheimer Theatertage 2018. In 2019 her productions of “Der zerbrochene Krug” at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and “Kafkas Haus” at the Saarländisches Staatstheater were again nominated in Theater heute, this time as production of the year.

Since then she has directed further work at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden and, among others, at the Berliner Ensemble, the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Theater Bonn and the state theatres in Hannover, Kassel, Darmstadt and Saarbrücken. In the 2023/24 season she went on to direct at the Nationaltheater Mannheim and Schauspiel Frankfurt.