Thomas Frank

Thomas Frank has been working for 25 years in institutions that produce contemporary performing arts in an international context. Since November 2025, he has been senior dramaturg at the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen in Hanover. Prior to that, from 2016 to October 2025, he was artistic director of the residency program for independent theater, dance, and performance groups from Europe at the Schauspiel Leipzig. From 2015 to 2017, he was also engaged as a freelance curator at the VabaLava Theater in Tallinn, Estonia. In 2007, Thomas Frank and Haiko Pfost founded brut Wien as an international co-production house for interdisciplinary performing arts, which he managed with artistic and executive responsibility until 2015. From 2005 to 2007, he was program dramaturg at the Sophiensaele in Berlin, and from 2000 to 2005, he was assistant artistic director and dramaturg at the Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt am Main. He studied theater studies and communication and media studies in Leipzig and Glasgow. He has been a lecturer in dramaturgy at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater in Leipzig since 2018.