Adrian Figueroa

Adrian Figueroa (* 1984 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German director and video artist .

Career

In 2009 he completed his Masters at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Since 2010 he has made various films nationally and internationally, including the documentary Die Lücke - A piece on Keupstrasse about the NSU nail bomb attack on Cologne's Keupstrasse, based on the theater evening of the same name at the Cologne Theater. His docu-fiction film Elsewhere , a portrait of prisoners of the JVA Tegel, was "/ Best Documentary Mitel Short" award in 2018 at the festival "Achtung Berlin" in the category and was supported by the German Short Film for the German Short Film Award proposed. His work as a theater director and video artist has taken him to the Staatsschauspiel Dresden , Schauspiel Frankfurt , Schauspiel Köln , Schauspiel Leipzig , Maxim Gorki Theater , Shunt London and the Greenwich Playhouse. The production One Day I went to Lidl at Ballhaus Naunynstraße was invited to the Theatertreffen der Jugend in 2016 . In cooperation with the prison theater project aufBruch, he has been doing theater projects in Berlin penal institutions for several years. His theater production Stress , which is based on interviews with prisoners at the Berlin juvenile prison, premiered last year at HAU Hebbel am Ufer . In 2019 Adrian Figueroa received a scholarship from the Tarabya Culture Academy in Istanbul. At the Deutsches Theater in Berlin , he is directing in Hool of Philipp Winkler , a production of the boy DT.

Projects

Theater productions (selection)

2018: "Hool", Deutsches Theater Berlin
2018: "Pictures without purple", Staatsschauspiel Dresden
2018: “Theater is finally theater”, Maxim Gorki Theater , Berlin
2017: "Stress", HAU Hebbel am Ufer , Berlin
2015: “One Day I Went to Lidl”, Ballhaus Naunynstrasse , Berlin
2014: "Letters to my cat Bebert", prison theater aufBruch, Berlin
2013: “ Der Seewolf ”, Prison Theater aufBruch, Berlin
2010: "Am I neutral now", Old Vic Tunnels / Shunt, London
2009: "East", Greenwich Playhouse, London

Filmography

2017: Elsewhere , documentary, 30 min, Berlin

2015: Die Lücke- The NSU bomb attack in Cologne , documentary film, 45 min, Cologne
2012: The Strongman, documentary, 3 min, London
2012: The Boxer, documentary, 3 min, London
2011: Situation: Street, documentary, 25 min, London / Mexico City

Video design (selection)

2018: Fear eats the soul , (Director: Nuran David Calis), Schauspiel Leipzig
2016: Kuffar, (Director: Nuran David Calis), Deutsches Theater Berlin
2016: Gold, (Director: Nuran David Calis), Nibelungen Festival Worms
2016: Faith Fighters, (Director: Nuran David Calis), Schauspiel Köln
2015: Baal , (Director: Nuran David Calis), Schauspiel Leipzig
2015: Komitas , (Director: Marc Sinan ), Maxim Gorki Theater , Berlin
2015: Klassenfeind , (director: Peter Atanassov), prison theater aufBruch, Berlin
2014: Fear, (Director: Johanna Wehner), Schauspiel Frankfurt
2014: Die Lücke, (Director: Nuran David Calis ), Schauspiel Köln

Awards

2019 scholarship from the Tarabya Culture Academy in Istanbul
2019 capital city culture funding

2018 Elsewhere "Best Documentary Medium / Short" - Attention Berlin - new berlin film award

2018 Elsewhere "2nd place Best Documentary Mitellang / Short" - Open Eyes Filmfest Marburg

2017 Participation in the Hof International Film Festival with Elsewhere

2017 Capital City Culture Promotion

2016 Participation in the theater meeting of young people with One Day I Went to Lidl

Web links

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Figueroa, Adrian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German director and video artist
DATE OF BIRTH	1984
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main