Lily Sykes

Lily Sykes studied German language and literature and philosophy at Oxford and attended Philippe Gaulier's clown school in Paris from 2006 to 2008. From 2009 to 2012, she was an assistant director at Schauspiel Frankfurt, where she regularly staged her own productions. For her Frankfurt production of “Die Bürgschaft” (The Guarantee), a co-production with the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, she was nominated as Young Director of the Year in the 2011 critics' poll by Theater heute. Since 2012, she has been working as a freelance director at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Schauspielhaus Graz, Berliner Ensemble, Schauspiel Köln, and Burgtheater Wien, among others. In 2021, her production of Isobel McArthur's “Pride and Prejudice *oder so” won the STELLA Prize for “Outstanding Production.” Since 2018, Lily Sykes has been a guest lecturer at the HKB Bern. Since the 2022/23 season, she has been resident director at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden.