Lisa-Katrina Mayer

Zurich University of the Arts, ZHdK. After working at the Lucerne Theater and initially as a guest at the Schauspielhaus Zurich, she was engaged as a permanent ensemble member at the Schauspielhaus Zurich while still a student. During this time she worked regularly with Herbert Fritsch, Kornél Mundruczó, Jan Bosse, Karin Henkel, Sebastian Nübling, Timofey Kuljabin, Barbara Frey, Katja Brunner and many others. In the 2017/18 season, Lisa-Katrina Mayer developed the Swiss premiere of Sibylle Berg’s MISSIONEN DER SCHÖNHEIT as a solo together with choreographer and director Salome Schneebeli, as well as video artist Heta Multanen, which premiered at the Zurich Festival.

Since 2019, Mayer lives in Berlin and works freelance at Schauspielhaus Zürich, Schauspiel Leipzig, Schauspiel Stuttgart, Ruhrtriennale, and Kammerspiele Munich, among others, where she has collaborated with Franz-Xaver Mayr, Enrico Lübbe, Jan Bosse, Hubert Wild, and Barbara Frey.

Lisa-Katrina Mayer also works as a voice-over artist for Deutschlandfunk, SRF and ORF, among others, and as an actress for film and television.

For example, she premiered at the Festival de Cannes in 2022 with the film THE VAGABONDS by Doroteya Droumeva and was most recently seen in Rosa von Praunheim’s DIE NACHTIGALL ODER DER GRAUSAME SOHN in the cinema. In addition, she is also active as a director. In the 22/23 season she directed CAFÉ POPULAIRE by Nora Abdel-Maksoud at the Landestheater Linz.

Lisa-Katrina Mayer performs regularly as a singer with various bands and another focus of her work is contemporary dance, in various projects and collaborations in Brussels and Berlin.

She also teaches as a guest lecturer at the Acting Institute of the Bruckner University Linz and leads workshops for physical theater.

In 2019/20 Lisa-Katrina Mayer was appointed to the jury for the Gertrud- Eysoldt-Ring by the German Academy of Performing Arts alongside Barbara Frey and Wolfram Koch.