Dr. Frederika Tsai

Dr. Frederika Tsai is a interdisciplinary curator, dramaturge, and theatre-maker who is based in Germany and works around the world.

Ms. Tsai talks about social issues in her work: the arrival and coexistence of old and new urban residents, the social pressure on the Flinta bodies, the different ways of life, and the criticism of the religious fanatics who add other pains in the name of religion. She works as a curator, dramaturge, and theatre-maker. Ms. Tsai has been working as a freelancer since 2017 and has realized various projects in Germany and Taiwan.

Between 2020 and 2021 she worked as an advisor with a focus on entry consultation well as consultation against racism and sexism in the work context at Performing Arts Programm Berlin. In the 2020/21 season, she was a dramaturgy consultant at Maxim Gorki Theate and co-curator of the festival PUGS IN LOVE - Queer Week 2021, which was realised in hybrid form despite the pandemic and empowered the queer community.

From July 2021 to December 2022, she is dramaturge and project coordinator at vier.ruhr, a cooperation between Theater an der Ruhr, Mülheimer Theatertage and Ringlokschuppen Ruhr in Mülheim an der Ruhr. Under her direction, new formats and projects have emerged that reflect diverse perspectives in society and represent marginalised positions. Easy language was introduced to the updated vier.ruhr website and the newly incorporated digital archive makes the programme more accessible. She has also been a mentor with the Mini Mentor Programme from the Dramaturgie-Netzwerk since 2021 and is thus active in promoting young talent.

She is a member of The Magdalena Project, an international network of women theatre makers and of Initiative of Solidarity in Theatre (ISaT). Driving structural change, practising solidarity and finding out about the potential of digitality in theatre are three main concerns she has been working on intensively in recent years. Accessibility is not only the way to these three main concerns, but a practice that she always respects in her daily work and always consciously enters into cooperation with experts and breaks down barriers.