Sebastian Schug
studied directing at the Ernst Busch High School for Performing Arts. His diploma production of Federico Garcia Lorca’s When Five Years Pass was invited to the 2005 Warsaw International Theatre Festival and led him to be named by Kurt Hübner as Young Director of the Year on behalf of the Academy of the Performing Arts. He has been resident director at the Theatre and Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Heidelberg since 2007/8. His productions include 5x2 after François Ozon’s film of the same name (Staatstheater Kassel) and Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind (2008), Lars von Trier’s The Idiots (Theatre and Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Heidelberg and the world premiere of Ewald Palmetshofer’s wohnen. unter glas (Vienna Schauspielhaus).
