Peter Lorenz
Director and Performance-MakerFellow
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Short Bio
Peter Lorenz is a freelance stage-director and performance-maker specialised in transdisciplinary
collaborations to create new formats. His works move between contemporary theatre, new opera,
experimental sound performance and interactive installation.
While studying applied theatre studies with focus on directing at the University of Glasgow, Peter
worked as assistant and revival director in theatre and opera (e.g. Scottish Opera, Vancouver
Opera, Cologne Opera, Theater St. Gallen, Innsbruck Festival of Early Music and Bayreuth
Festival). He has also developed his own productions and experimental performances in Austria,
Germany, Great Britain and Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he co-founded the Street Arts Festival
Mostar in 2012.
In 2017 he adapted Elfriede Jelinek’s BAMBILAND as a one-woman performance at the James
Arnott Theatre in Glasgow, and in 2018 he staged Gerhild Steinbuch's HERR MIT
SONNENBRILLE at the Theater diemonopol in Innsbruck, where he also revived his solo-
choreography TIME DUST from the ruins of Mostar for its Austrian premiere. He designed the
costumes and set for the world premiere of Christian Spitzenstaetter's opera STILLHANG at the
Tyrolean Festival in Erl, which won the Austrian Music Theatre Prize for Best World Premiere and
has been revived at Theater Brandenburg in 2023. His experimental sound theatre HOW DEEP IS
THE SEA was realised in 2021 in the form of interactive deckchair radio play stations at six
locations in Innsbruck and in the same year he directed Neil LaBute's FETTES SCHWEIN at the
Großer Rathaussaal in Telfs at the Tiroler Volksschauspiele.
He invented the interactive performance machine in a pizza box for INVISIBLE CITIES
INNSBRUCK in 2020, which was also exhibited at the Magic Carpets Landed Exhibition in Kaunas
as part of Kaunas European Capital of Culture. The machine has been developed further at a
fellowship at the Academy for Theatre and Digitality in Dortmund and presented in the frame of
INVISIBLE CITIES KOTTBUSSER TOR in Berlin 2022. In the same year, Peter directed the world
premiere of Gerhild Steinbuch's GUTE GESTÄNDNISSE BESSERER MENSCHEN at the Tiroler
Landestheater Innsbruck as well as the experimental musical MORAG YOU'RE A LONG TIME
DEID, which he co-wrote with Claire Love Wilson, in Vancouver.
Image Credit: Victor Malyshev