Verena Regensburger

Verena Regensburger is a theater director and author. She completed her studies in theater studies as well as language, literature and culture at the LMU Munich with a thesis on the role of the audience as co-actor. She worked as an assistant director at the Münchner Kammerspiele from the 2014/15 season (Johan Simons) to 2016/17 (Matthias Lilienthal). Her final production LUEGEN has been invited several times to national and international festivals such as No-Limits, Berlin and Santiago a Mil, Chile. As a freelance director, she realizes projects at municipal and state theaters such as the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Residenztheater or the Theater Bonn as well as in the independent scene in Germany, Switzerland or as part of her Goethe-Institut residency in Bangalore, India. In 2022/23 she will take on a teaching position for theater practice at the LMU Munich. Since January 2023, she has been Artistic Director of Freie Bühne München. For her artistic work to date, she has been awarded the “Förderpreis für Theater 2024” by the City of Munich.