Antje Thoms

Antje Thoms, director and author, was born in Stralsund, studied Applied Theater Studies in Giessen and was subsequently assistant director at the Lower Saxony State Theater in Hanover. There she worked with Sebastian Nübling, Andreas Kriegenburg, Luk Perceval and Jossi Wieler, among others. She has been working as a freelancer since 2003. In 2007, together with the author Jens Nielsen and the actor Dominique Müller, she founded the independent Zurich theater formation Trainingslager. Since the 14/15 season, Antje Thoms has been in-house director at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen with artistic director Erich Sidler. In 2020, she completed the in-service training program "Theater and Music Management" at the LMU Munich as a scholarship holder of the German Stage Association, and in 2021 she will participate in the mentoring program "Women in Culture and Media" of the German Cultural Council.