Ulrike Seybold

Ulrike Seybold has been managing director of the NRW State Office of Independent Performing Arts since January 2020. Since October 2015, she has been an assessor on the board of the Federal Association of Independent Performing Arts, and from 2013 to the end of 2019, she was the managing director of the State Association of Independent Theatres in Lower Saxony. Before joining the association, she worked for many years as a freelance production manager and press officer for various cultural and theater projects. She studied journalism, history and political science at the Ruhr University in Bochum, completed further training as a cultural manager in Neuss, and in parallel pursued journalistic activities for the taz and WDR, among others.