In the 2025/26 season, the Swiss director and author Fabiola Kunonen has inaugurated the new Central venue of the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus with Das Floß der Medusa, and staged the world premiere of the interdisciplinary work Ruptures. the power of saying no in a German-Swiss co-production at HochX in Munich. Other engagements include explorations of themes of forgetting and heroic narratives in her production of Zoran Drvenkar’s Kai geht in den Krieg und kommt mit Opa zurück at Theater Trier and her return to the Salzburg Festival as a director and librettist for King Arthur Junior.
In 2024/25 she directed Sibylle Berg’s Mein ziemlich seltsamer Freund Walter at the Salzburg Festival, the world premiere of Lena Gorelik’s Der wiedergefundene Freund and Caren Jeß’s Heartship at the Residenztheater in Munich and the world premiere of the music theatre piece Die Baugrube – based on the novel by Andrei Platonov – at the Reaktorhalle in Munich.
In 2023/24 she worked at the Kassel State Theatre on the world premiere of the short opera NACHT and completed her bachelor’s degree in theatre directing at the Bavarian Theatre Academy August Everding with the production ALL IN. In 2023 she also directed staged readings of Asiimwe Deborah Kawe’s Das gelobte Land and of Die Schneekönigin at the Residenztheater. Her production GOOD BYE HAMBURG (2023/24, City Science Lab HCU/MIT Media Lab/LICHTHOF Theater Hamburg), an AI-based performance, was shown at the Hauptsache Frei Festival 2024. Her online interactive multi-player live game HYPHE (2020) was presented at the International Puppet Theatre in Erlangen. In her music theatre production SCHLUCHTEN (2022, ZhK Brig/TaG Winterthur) she adapted regional legends from Valais in the context of current socio-political developments in the treatment of marginalized people.
Prior to her directing studies at the Bavarian Theatre Academy August Everding in Munich she completed a degree in German literature and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin, and directed productions at venues including the Volkstheater Rostock and on the independent scene in Berlin and Paris.
