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Erik Altorfer
Started his professional artistic work as an assistant director at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. Since 1997, he works as director and dramaturg for theatre and radio. He organized festivals commissioning and showcasing new plays in Switzerland, Austria, Egypt and Argentina. He was artistic director of the Swiss playwrights’ program Dramenprozessor which received the Swiss Theatre Award in 2015. He held writing workshops in Bahrain, Belarus, Bolivia and Egypt. Erik directed, commissioned and adapted numerous radio plays (by Tim Etchells, Annie Ernaux, Ivana Sajko, Mudar Alhaggi, Agota Kristof and many others) for German and Swiss radio stations. Together with the Syrian playwright Mudar Alhaggi he led writing/theatre workshops with refugees in Beirut, Graz (Austria) and Zurich (Switzerland). Erik is teaching at the Zurich Academy of the Arts, in the last years with a focus on writing and directing audio plays.
