Suna Gürler

Suna Gürler began her theatrical career as a 13­year-old actress in junges theater basel, completed a year of practical training at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, and since then has successfully avoided easy categorisation: in her work she is at once a director, actor, dancer, sound designer, writer and theatre researcher. As an artist who is as interested in the art of education as in aesthetic creation, she alternates between artistic theatrical work and pedagogical theatre projects. As a director, she develops repertoire plays under “normal” professional conditions together with adult, professional actors and with selected young performers. She also develops plays with the youth club under the following general conditions: an intensive hobby for young thespians. Suna Gürler remains connected to the junges theater basel to this day; she has been directing productions there regularly since 2011. Since 2013, she has been part of Shermin Langhoff’s team at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin as director, actor and theatre educator. Aside from her theatrical work, she has created various formats for young people, such as Zeig! (Show Us!), an open stage in Basel, or Die Voyeure (The Voyeurs), a range of clubs for young theatre audiences that have now become established all over Switzerland, and will also be a permanent fixture of the Schauspielhaus Zürich educational programme. From 2019 till 2024, she has been part of the board of directors at Schauspielhaus Zürich and, in addition to her work as in-house director, responsible for the youth clubs.