Thea Brejzek
Theory Curator
Thea Brejzek is a German theatre scholar and former opera and new music stage director. Currently, she is a professor of scenography at the Zurich University for the Arts (ZHdK) and artistic director of a practice-based Doctorate Program in Scenography in a cooperation between ZHdK and the University of Vienna. Informed by her dual backgrounds as opera director and academic, Thea Brejzek's research addresses questions of virtuality and physicality on the mediated stage, intermediality and practice-based research in scenography. She is a member of OISTAT`s History & Theory Commission, the Swiss Society for Semiotics and Cultural Theory, an advisor on the Digital Sparks Media Art Competition, Fraunhofer Institute and Second PhD Supervisor in the arts & sciences PhD Program Z-Node, University of Plymouth UK. Thea lectures and publishes widely.