Hes­si­an Thea­t­re Aca­de­my

Un­der the um­brel­la of the Hes­si­an Thea­t­re Aca­de­my, foun­ded in 2002, all the uni­ver­si­ties in­vol­ved in thea­t­re trai­ning in Hes­se are united, as well as the Hes­si­an Sta­te Thea­tres, all the mu­ni­ci­pal thea­tres and, in ad­di­ti­on, thea­tres from Ba­den-Würt­tem­berg and Rhi­ne­land-Pa­la­ti­na­te. The most di­ver­se bran­ches of the per­forming arts and their cross-con­nec­tions open up rea­listic and prac­ti­cal op­por­tu­nities for stu­dents to pre­pa­re them­sel­ves for the com­ple­xi­ty of their ar­tis­tic ca­re­ers.

With their fi­nal pro­duc­tions at the thea­tres, the young ar­tists work on their first pro­fes­sio­nal thea­t­re as well as mu­si­cal thea­t­re evenings and per­for­man­ces.

The Hes­si­an Thea­t­re Aca­de­my is ba­sed at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mu­sic and Per­forming Arts (HfMDK) in Frank­furt.

Sin­ce Fe­bru­a­ry 21, 2026, Prof. Bo­ja­na Kunst, head of the mas­ter's pro­gram in “Cho­reo­gra­phy and Per­for­mance” at the In­sti­tu­te for Ap­p­lied Thea­ter Stu­dies at Jus­tus Lie­big Uni­ver­si­ty in Gies­sen, has been the new pre­si­dent of the Hes­si­an Thea­ter Aca­de­my. Bo­ja­na Kunst suc­ceeds Prof. Ingo Diehl, who led the HTA as pre­si­dent for eight ye­ars. Sin­ce Fe­bru­a­ry 21, the of­fice of vice pre­si­dent has been held by Do­ro­thea Hart­mann, ar­tis­tic di­rec­tor of the Hes­si­an Sta­te Thea­ter in Wies­ba­den, who suc­ceeds Kars­ten Wie­gand, ar­tis­tic di­rec­tor of the Sta­te Thea­ter in Darm­stadt.

The fol­lo­wing uni­ver­si­ties are ac­tive in the Hes­si­an Thea­t­re Aca­de­my:

... and col­la­bo­ra­te with the fol­lo­wing part­ner thea­tres in the edu­ca­ti­on of stu­dents:

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