Sezin Onay

Sezin Onay was born in Goslar in 1988. After graduating from high school, she studied performing arts and German language and literature at Leibniz University in Hanover. Already at the beginning of her studies, she participated in various projects of the Junges Schauspiel Hannover. Among others, she played in productions of the director Nurkan Erpulat, Marco Štorman and the theater and performance collective "andcompany&Co". She interned in theater pedagogy under the direction of Barbara Kantel and developed her own plays together with people of different backgrounds within the intercultural theater group "Türkisch-Deutsches-Theater" (TDT) of the Theaterhaus Hildesheim. Both during and after her studies, Sezin Onay worked as a freelance theater pedagogue and led theater projects with children and young people at the Junges Schauspiel Hannover, in youth centers, child and youth counseling centers and associations for intercultural communication, migration and refugee work.

Since the 2016/2017 season, Sezin Onay has been a permanent theater pedagogue at the Junges Ensemble Stuttgart. Here she works, among other things, in the kindergarten language support project and is responsible as a leader for various play clubs.