How to Become a Director: Opportunities for Youngsters on Two Rhine-Main Stages

How does one actually become a director? You can study directing. But you also have to do it. Some have been assistant directors for a number of years, realizing smaller projects, others trying out the independent scene, others doing both, there are many ways to learn. They should end up in their own stage work, that’s the hope of most assistants.

Permanent establishments are well advised to use the potential of junior staff, some do it more, others less. Because you have to create time and space for it, opportunities to try something with the resources of the theater that can also go wrong. And then these works must be seen. The traditional “Week of Young Actors” in Bensheim is always a week for young directors and their teams.