BACKGROUND

Thomas Ostermeier has been resident director and member of the artistic direction of the Schaubühne since 1999. He graduated in directing from the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch and served as artistic director of the Baracke at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. He has directed productions at the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Edinburgh Festival, the Burgtheater in Vienna, and the Comédie-Française in Paris. In 2004, he became an associate artist of the Festival d’Avignon. He received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale (2011), as well as the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Kythera Culture Prize (both in 2018).

Édouard Louis is a French writer. Born Eddy Bellegueule, he studied sociology with Didier Eribon at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His debut autobiographical novel, The End of Eddy (2014), became a number-one bestseller in France and was translated into 18 languages. His second novel, History of Violence, was published in 2017, followed by Who Killed My Father. He received the Pierre Guénin Prize for his engagement against homophobia.

Luis Felipe Reis is a director, playwright, curator, journalist, and holds an MA in Literature from PUC-Rio. Co-founder of Polifônica, he investigates staging procedures through the concepts of Scenic Polyphony and Counter-scenes to the Anthropocene. His works include Estamos indo embora (2015), Amor em dois atos (2016), GALÁXIAS (2018), Tudo que brilha no escuro (2020), VISTA (2023), DESERTO (2024), and EDDY – violence & metamorphosis (2025), created from the work of Édouard Louis.