Christian Fuchs was born in Düsseldorf in 1972 and studied musical theater directing in Hamburg as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. Since 2003 he has worked as a freelance director in opera and puppet theater in Würzburg, Halle, Erfurt and Leipzig, among other places. He was dramaturg at Theater Waidspeicher Erfurt, director of the Young Theater at Theater Nordhausen and project manager at Theater der Jungen Welt Leipzig. Since August 2019 he has been working as a freelance director and puppeteer and lives with his family in Leipzig.

Heinrich Horwitz is a director*, choreographer* and actor*. Heinrich studied acting direction and choreography at the HfS Ernst Busch Berlin. She realized productions in the independent scene, at various city theaters and in the new music scene. Heinrich was invited to the Heidelberg Stückemarkt, to the author festival Maximierung Mensch in Trier and was awarded the Dance and Theater Prize of the City of Stuttgart and the State of Baden-Württemberg. Since 2017, Heinrich has worked continuously with the Decoder Ensemble. In addition to directing and choreographing, Heinrich also works continuously as an actor* in theater, film and television. Heinrich received the Adolf Grimme Award. Since 2016 Heinrich has been working with the artist team The Agency. 2021 saw the creation of Amazonen Mythos, which focused on Amazon Rising as a queer-feminist parade through Berlin. In 2022 Heinrich is a lecturer* in the directing class at the AdK in Ludwigsburg. Heinrich Horwitz is co-signer* of the #ActOut Manifesto and activist alongside 185+ actors*.

Nicki Liszta (*1980) studied contemporary dance at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Tilburg, The Netherlands. Since graduating in 2006, she has worked as a choreographer and director in the contemporary dance and theater scene. Since 2009 as a guest lecturer at various art colleges. As part of the artistic direction of backsteinhaus produktion, she has realized numerous collaborations and own productions since 2008 and received various awards and nominations with these works, such as for the Georg Tabori Prize 2018. Since 2016, the group backsteinhaus produktion has been deeply connected with the Theater Rampe in Stuttgart. From here they work on narrative in dance, experimenting with site-specific works, with the alternation between outdoor and indoor spaces, and with staged overrides. Thematically, backsteinhaus produktion thus controversially reflect images from current events and discourses and develop grotesque distorted images of our society between pathos and comedy. As an artist and participant in various teams, Nicki Liszta is particularly interested in breaking up unhealthy structures and the ideal of power-free, expertise-based work.

Torsten Michaelsen is part of the performance group LIGNA, which since 2002 has been engaged in creating temporary situations in which the audience becomes a collective of producers - an association that produces unpredictable, uncontrollable effects that challenge the order of space.

LIGNA's first more widely perceived work, "Radio Ballet" (from 2002) invites participants to follow a choreography of forbidden and excluded gestures in formerly public, now privatized and controlled places such as main train stations or shopping malls. In the process, a new form of participatory theater emerged, which the group updated in 2020 with the work "Dispersion Everywhere" - a collaboration with 14 international choreographers that addressed the question of collective agency in times of pandemic. Pieces such as "Der Neue Mensch" (2008), "Tanz Aller -" (2013) or the adaptation of Brecht's "Die Spitzköpfe und die Rundköpfe" (2022) examine the theater itself as a place where subjectivity is produced.

In addition, Torsten Michaelsen also gives workshops and seminars from time to time.

Dan Thy Nguyen is a freelance theater director, actor, writer and singer in Hamburg. He has worked on various productions at Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Mousonturm Frankfurt, Kampnagel, MDR and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, among others. In 2014 he developed and produced the play "Sonnenblumenhaus" about the pogrom of Rostock -Lichtenhagen, which won the "Hörnixe" in 2015 in its radio play version and is still played at various institutions. Since 2020, he has directed the Hamburg festival "fluctoplasma - 96h Kunst Diskurs Diversität" with his production company Studio Marshmallow and he is deputy board member of the LAG Kinder- und Jugendkultur Hamburg. In 2021, together with the entire ensemble, he received the German Radio Play Award for his acting performance. In 2022 he published, among other things, his first volume of poetry "Über Wasser und Tote" and co-curated the exhibition "Wer wir sind" at the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn in 2023.

Mable Preach has been present in the Hamburg art scene for many years - as a director or choreographer, as a curator and networker. She is the initiator of the festival for urban BIPoC youth culture FORMATION**NOW and director of the cultural and youth association Lukulule. Most recently, she showed her directorial work EMB*RACE YOUR CROWN** as part of the season opening at Kampnagel. In her work she critically engages with racism and (neo-)colonialism, promotes empowerment and produces alternative images and narratives to the white mainstream.

Mirjam Schmuck (*1984), has been working as a director, dramaturg, musician and musical director in theater productions in NRW, Hamburg, Berlin and internationally (Poland, Croatia, Cameroon, Madagascar) since 2005. She founded the kainkollektiv together with Fabian Lettow in 2010. After graduating from high school, she studied theater and comparative literature at the Ruhr University Bochum and the Université Charles-de-Gaulle in Lille. She develops her theater works in the field of tension between different musical styles and in dialogue with contemporary and classical musicians, singers, composers, electro-sound and radio play artists. Her theatrical search is for the possibilities of contemporary music theater, which she describes as ""OPERationen für Zeitgenossen" (OPERations for contemporaries). Mirjam Schmuck is in her recent creations GAIA, KASSIA and currently in BLACK EURYDICE searching for new strategies in feminist practices and foundation of new shared feminist narratives. Her theatrical work was awarded the Tabori Young Artists Prize in 2015. Since 2018 she has been directing tak Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg in a collective-collegial leadership model with 6 other artists. She lives with her three children in Bochum.