Position: Director, My Way Production
Short vita: Tom Stromberg was born in Wilhelmshaven in 1960. While completing a duel degree in Theater and German Language & Literature in Cologne, he worked as a freelancer for the German public television station WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk).
In 1984 Stromberg began his theater career at the Staatstheater Darmstadt. In 1986, shortly after having been hired as a set designer, Stromberg was offered his first position as director at the "Theater Am Turm” (TAT) in Frankfurt. While in Frankfurt, Stromberg organized the 1990 "Experimenta 6" Heiner Mueller theater festival and was chief creative director for the "Euroscene" theatre festival in Leipzig (1995-1999). Between 1996 and 1998 he was an artistic advisor to William Forsythe.
From 1996 to 2000 Tom Stromberg worked as creative director for the Hanover EXPO culture and event program, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the "Theaterformen" theater festival and co-director of "TANZtheater INTERNATIONAL". In 1997 he received the "Radio Play of the Year" award for "Will It Be A Likeness" by and with John Berger, which he co-directed together with Juan Munoz.
In 1997 Stromberg was the curator for the documenta X "Theaterskizzen” program in Kassel. In 2000, Stromberg produced the unabridged version of Goethe’s “Faust I” and “Faust II” directed by Peter Stein, which was one of the highlights of the Hanover EXPO. In the same year, Stromberg was appointed Director of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, which was named “Theater of the Year” in 2004/05.
After five years at the Schauspielhaus, Stromberg became partner and managing director of “my way PRODUCTION” together with Peter Zadek and Antje Landshoff Ellermann. Currently Stromberg is working on theater productions together with Stefan Pucher, Falk Richter, Jan Bosse and Laurent Chétouane.
From 1995 - 2004 Stromberg was member of the Advisory Board for Theater and Dance at the Goethe Institute as well as jury member for "Impulse 2002", "Impulse 2003" and the "Friedrich Schütter Prize” (2001 - 2003). Since 2001 Stromberg has served on the board of the Allianz Cultural Foundation. He is also member of the Academy of the Visual Arts.
Stromberg teaches theater at the University of Gießen, Mainz and Innsbruck.
Stromberg lives and works in Hamburg and Streckenthin/Pritzwalk in Brandenburg.
Links:
www.myway-production.com
t.stromberg@berlin-school.com
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