Susanne Kennedy

Susanne Kennedy (1977, Friedrichshafen) is a director and began working with the ensemble of the Münchner Kammerspiele in 2011. This led to productions such as ‘They shoot horses, don't they?’ (2011) or ‘Why is Mr R. running amok?’ (2014). For ‘Fegefeuer in Ingolstadt’ (2013), Kennedy was voted Young Director of the Year by the trade journal Theater heute and awarded the 3sat Prize. In collaboration with the Ruhrtriennale, she created the music theatre parcours ‘Orfeo’ in 2015 and the multimedia piece ‘MEDEA.MATRIX.’ together with visual artist Markus Selg in 2016. She celebrated her first world premiere at the Volksbühne Berlin in 2018 with ‘Women in Trouble’, followed by ‘Coming Society’ in 2019. Kennedy was a guest at the Wiener Festwochen in 2018 with her work ‘Die Selbstmord-Schwestern – The Virgin Suicides’ (2017, Münchner Kammerspiele). Her most recent plays include ‘Drei Schwestern’ for the Münchner Kammerspiele (2019) and ‘Ultraworld’ at the Volksbühne Berlin (2020). In ‘Oracle’, she staged a tour through art spaces by Markus Selg in 2020, and in ‘I AM (VR)’ she transported this experience into the virtual world in 2021. In 2022, she created her first music theatre production at Theater Basel with the avant-garde opera ‘Einstein on the Beach’, which was performed at the Wiener Festwochen in the same year.