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Kay Voges has been artistic director of Schauspiel Köln since 2025. Prior to that, he served as director of the Volkstheater in Vienna for five years and as artistic director of Schauspiel Dortmund (2010–2020). Kay Voges has been working as a director of theater and opera since 1998—for example, at Schauspiel Dortmund, the Hanover State Opera, the Dortmund Opera, the Volksbühne Berlin, the Hamburg Schauspielhaus, Schauspiel Frankfurt, the Dresden State Theater, the State Theaters of Darmstadt, Kassel, and Stuttgart, the Magdeburg Theater, the Bonn Theater, and the stages of Münster and Moers.
Notable works include Voges’ theatrical adaptation of “The Master and Margarita” (2012), “Einige Nachrichten an das All” by Wolfram Lotz—which opened the 2012–2013 season at Schauspiel Dortmund as a multimedia encounter between theater and film—and his theatrical adaptation of Vinterberg’s “The Celebration.” With the multimedia performance “THE GOLDEN AGE – 100 Ways to Steal the Show from Fate” (2013), he continued his work at the intersection of theater and film/video art; his acclaimed debut as an opera director with “Tannhäuser or the Singers’ Contest at Wartburg” (Dortmund Opera, 2013) was a brilliant continuation of this work.
Kay Voges has received numerous awards for his directing work. In 2017, his production “Die Borderline Prozession” was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen. “Some Messages to the Universe” won the Grand Prize for Best Production at the 2013 NRW Theatertreffen; the film accompanying the production received first prize for Best Director at the Artodocs International Film Festival in St. Petersburg and second prize in the Experimental Film category at the Sunset Film Festival in Los Angeles. Voges’ work consistently explores the intersection of theater and digital media—prompting him to initiate the founding of the academy in 2017 and serve as its founding director.