Portrait of Susanne Schuster. She has half-length blonde hair, wears light-colored glasses and a mustard yellow sweater © Anna Kristina Bauer

Susanne Schuster

Dramaturge and curator, artistic co-director OutOfTheBox

Susanne Schuster has been working as a dramaturge and curator in the independent performing arts since 2014. She studied "Dramaturgy" in Leipzig and "Staging the Arts and Media" in Hildesheim. She has been doing her doctorate there on the topic of "PerformingAlgorithm" since 2018. From 2017-2020, she co-directed the Hauptsache Frei festival in Hamburg with Julian Kamphausen. In 2022, she curated the Akademie Digital Lab #3 for the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Together with Ricardo Gehn, Susanne Schuster is artistic director of the media and performance group OutOfTheBox. OutOfTheBox develops speculative software and designs performative experiential spaces at the interface of theater, media art and game design.