ANNE MULLENERS
Anne Mulleners is a theatre director originally from the Netherlands, but currently residing in Vienna, Austria.
Most recently she directed
Falsch
at Die Wuppertaler Bühnen,
Was Ihr Wollt
at Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, TEVÂFUK/MATCH/FÜGUNG
at Ballhaus Prinzenallee (Berlin),
Die Ärztin
at Schauspielhaus Graz, and
Königin Lear
at Stadttheater Ingolstadt.
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. In the summer of 2022, they produced and performed a reading of Hannah’s ZWILLING ECHO KINGKONG LOOP at Kultursommer Wien and LOT, Wien.
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 choices of texts include "well made plays", contemporary texts as well as classics, mainly from an English or Dutch theatre context. She loves a bit of weird humor, theatre should be (again) a playful, weird and wondrous place. Let's not take ourselves so seriously.
