ANNE MULLENERS
Anne Mulleners is a theatre director originally from the Netherlands, but currently residing in Vienna, Austria.
Most recently she directed
Cyrano de Bergerac
at Theater Krefeld Mönchengladbach,
Der Sturm/The Tempest
at Landestheater Niederösterreich,
Das Schlafstück
at der Kunstuniversität Graz,
Viel Lärm um Nichts
at Theater Oberhausen,
Falsch
at the Wupperthaler Bühnen,
Was Ihr Wollt
at Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck and
TEVÂFUK/MATCH/FÜGUNG
at Ballhaus Prinzenallee, Berlin
She did both her Bachelor (BA Drama & English Literature, University of Greenwich) and her Master (MA Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) in the UK, after which she worked as a director, stage manager, dramaturg and theatre critic on numerous productions. Most notably she worked with artists such as Roy Alexander Weise, Yolanda Mercy, Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu and Jade Lewis, and with institutions/theatres such as the British American Drama Academy, Ovalhouse, Camden People's Theatre, and the New Diorama.
In 2019 she founded Ja?TheatreCompany together with Melissa Syversen and Christina Bulford, with which she produced and directed /SYLVIA\.
In the same year, she worked at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (AD Ivo van Hove) as an assistant Dramaturg on Julien Gosselin's 'Vallende Man'.
From 2019 till 2022 she worked as a full time assistant director at Schauspielhaus Graz, working with artists such as Simone Dede Ayivi, Anita Vulesica, Claudia Bossard, Nikolaus Habjan, Franz Xaver Mayr, to name but a few.
At Schauspielhaus Graz she since directed in 2020/2021 Zitronen Zitronen Zitronen (Sam Steiner), as well as a film version of the performance in cooperation with filmmaker Thomas Achitz. In HAUS Zwei she directed in 2021/2022 'Die Laborantin' (Ella Road), and in 2022/2023 she directed Robert Icke’s 'Die Ärztin' on the main stage.
In 2021 she started working collectively with writer Hannah Bründl, with whom she makes urgent, contemporary work that sits at the meeting point between poetry/spoken word and theatre. Most recently, in the autumn of 2024, they collectively brought TENDER to the stage at Werk X as part of the Wortstattnächte 2024.
CV available here
Her current work focuses on issues such as identity politics, the place of queer identities in our society, and the visibility of female narratives on our stages. She aims to make work that speaks to a wide range of individuals, making the above mentioned themes accessible to most, if not all. She believes in the ability of theatre to address a multiplicity of intricate themes at the same time, all layered on top of one another like the skins of an onion. Her work has a strong focus on English and Dutch texts, both contemporary as well as classical.
She fights against a perceived contemporary use of irony to deflect criticism, and aims to make theatre that is rich in its vunerability and does not shy away from being hopeful. Let's End cringe culture!
(She also loves a bit of weird humor, theatre should (again) be a playful, and wondrous place. Let's not always take ourselves so seriously.)
