Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Ulrike Syha


Meet the playwrights who are contributing to the Around-the-Globe Chain Play.


Ulrike Syha (Germany) was born in 1976 in Wiesbaden, Germany. She studied "Dramaturgie" at the "Hochschule für Musik und Theater" in Leipzig and worked for several years as an assistant to the director at Schauspiel Leipzig (artistic director: Wolfgang Engel). Since 2003 she lives as a freelance playwright in Hamburg, Germany. Ulrike Syha won several awards and stipends - the "Kleistförderpreis für junge Dramatiker" (2002), a fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude (2006/2007), a stipend at Deutsche Akademie Rom / Casa Baldi (2008) and the "Hamburger Förderpreis für Literatur" (2010), among others. She has been writer in residence at Nationaltheater Mannheim (2009/2010) and she has been invited to the renowned "Mülheimer Dramatikertage" twice (2003 and 2009). Ulrike Syha's plays, radio dramas, and translations are published by Rowohlt Theater Verlag, Reinbek, Germany. Her newest play "Mao und ich" will be staged at Nationaltheater Mannheim in autumn 2013.



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Join us on World Theatre Day, Wednesday, March 27th at 7PM at The Lark Play Development Center (311 West 43rd Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10036)

Tickets are free, but reservations are strongly encouraged. www.eventbrite.com 

A reception follows the reading.

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