Lily Sykes
Lily Sykes (* 1984 in London ) is a British theater director and actress who mainly directs in the German and English-speaking areas and currently lives in Berlin , Paris and London.
Life
Sykes was born in London as the first child of author and photographer Christopher Simon Sykes and his wife Belinda Susan Giles; she has a brother who is six years her junior. She studied German and philosophy at Oxford and realized parallel to her studies her first theater projects, 2004 Lulu by Frank Wedekind in the Old Fire Station Theater and 2005. The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht at the Oxford Playhouse. In 2004 she also worked with Chen Shi-Zheng and Jossi Wieler at the Mobile Academy Berlin. After completing her studies, she worked as assistant director with Anja Gronau and Peter Mussbach .
From 2006 to 2008 she attended the École Philippe Gaulier in Paris and worked during this time as Kate in The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare and as Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov . In 2007 she founded the international theater ensemble Aitherios with artists from Japan , Germany , Austria , England , the USA and Italy . Under her direction, the first joint production, The Fish is Open, was staged in Berlin, London, Cambridge and Isfahan . In 2008 she received a scholarship from the International Forum at the Berlin Theatertreffen .
From 2009 to 2012 Sykes worked as an assistant director at the Schauspiel Frankfurt and during this time also regularly supervised her own directing projects. Since 2012 she has been directing as a freelance director a. a. for the Deutsches Theater Berlin , the Schauspiel Frankfurt, the theaters in Oberhausen and Osnabrück , the Junge Theater Göttingen , the bat Studiotheater Berlin, the Schauspielhaus Zürich , the Schauspielhaus Graz and the Schauspiel Hannover .
Awards
For her staging of Lothar Kittstein's Die Bürgschaft für das Schauspiel Frankfurt in a coproduction with the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen , Sykes received a nomination for Young Director of the Year in the 2011 critics' survey by Theater heute . With her Oberhausen production of The Secret Garden , she was invited to the Westwind Festival of the Essen Drama Theater in 2013 and was also awarded the 3rd prize at the Oberhausen Theater Prize.
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| SURNAME | Sykes, Lily |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British theater director and actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |