Stephanie Mohr

is a multi-award winning freelance director whose work has captivated audiences across the German-speaking world since 1996. She made her UK debut in 2019.

She is known for bringing bold new writing to the stage, having directed world and national premieres of plays by leading contemporary voices such as Daniel Kehlmann, Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller, David Harrower, Lars von Trier, Moisès Kaufman, Zach Helm, Lucy Kirkwood, Roland Schimmelpfennig, Felix Mitterer, Peter Turrini, Thomas Jonigk, Thomas Arzt, Martin Crimp, Dea Loher, Biljana Srbljanovic, Wilhelm Genazino, Claudius Lünstedt and Rebekka Kricheldorf.

Equally at home with the classics, her directing credits span a wide range of authors including Schiller, Kleist, Horváth, Schnitzler, Büchner, Shakespeare, Grillparzer, Wedekind, Handke, Frisch, Turgenev, Fritz Hochwälder, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edward Albee, Urs Widmer, Ingeborg Bachmann, Alfred Döblin, Imre Kertész, Karl Schönherr, and Pierre Carlet de Marivaux.

From 2000 to 2009, she was an associate director to Franz Wittenbrink, co-directing productions in Munich, Vienna, and Aix-en-Provence. In 2014, she made a celebrated opera debut with Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio at Munich’s Gärtnerplatztheater.

Stephanie is also known for her long-standing artistic partnerships — including a dynamic collaboration with the iconic British band The Tiger Lillies — and with creative allies such as designers Miriam Busch, Nini von Selzam, Alfred Mayerhofer, Florian Parbs, and musicians Wolfgang Schlögl, Kyrre Kvam, Stefan Lasko and Franz Wittenbrink.