Susanne Kennedy
 
Susanne Kennedy (Germany, 1977) studied theatre directing at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Amsterdam, debuted on the Dutch stage. In 2011 she was invited to work at the Münchner Kammerspiele. For Fegefeuer in Ingolstadt, she was voted Young Director of the Year by “Theater heute” magazine in 2013. In recent years, she has been based at Volksbühne Berlin and Münchner Kammerspiele, produced Ultraworld and Oracle with Markus Selg in 2020. Distorted by masks, playback dialogue, doppelgängers and multimedia, the actors confront the audience with the question: what does it mean to be human?

Danae Theodoridou is a performance maker and researcher. She studied literature and linguistics in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and acting in the National Theatre of Northern Greece. She completed her PhD on dramaturgy of contemporary theatre and dance at Roehampton University in London. The last years, her artistic work focuses on the notion of social imaginaries, the practice of democracy and the way art can contribute to the emergence of social and political alternatives. At the same time, Danae teaches in Fontys University of Applied Sciences (NL) and in the Drama Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, she curates practice-led research projects and presents and publishes her research work internationally. She has been the co-creator of Dramaturgy at Work (2013-2016) and the co-author of The Practice of Dramaturgy: Working on Actions in Performance (Valiz, 2017).