Tom Wolter

Freelance theater maker since 1994; Tom Wolter is a founding member of the free ensemble p&s and since 2017 artistic director of the WUK Theater Quartier in Halle; since 2014 artistic director of the Student Theater of the University of Halle; producer of interventions and interactions in public space; so far 115 own theater productions as actor/director/writer for all ages; Cooperations with various theaters nationwide, including junges theater Göttingen, theaterhaus Stuttgart, Theater unter dem Dach Berlin, Projekttheater Dresden, moritzbastei Leipzig, Theater an der Angel Magdeburg, Puppentheater Halle, Oper Halle and others; acting teacher at various institutions, workshops on politics, theater and acting, improvisation nationwide and internationally; lecturer so far at a. o. among others at the Theaterakademie Sachsen, the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig, Uni Halle and the Hochschule Merseburg; Tom Wolter is involved in cultural and local politics. He has been a city councilor in Halle (Saale) for MitBürger e.V. since 2005, and has been the parliamentary group leader of MitBürger & Die PARTEI since 2019; he has been a board member of the Federal Association of Independent Performing Arts since 2015. Since 2019, he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Standing Conference of German-Speaking Drama Schools and the Theater Advisory Board of the Free State of Thuringia.