Thilo Ullrich
Set Designer
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The freelance set and costume designer Thilo Ullrich returns to Oper Frankfurt, where he worked for the first time on a wonderful new production of Harrison Birtwistle's Punch and Judy with Wolfgang Nägele (with whom he recently staged The Tales of Hoffmann and Candide at the Stadttheater in Bielfeld), for the world premiere of Sebastian Schwab's Skaterherz / A Skateboarder's Heart (commissioned by Oper Frankfurt, directed by Max Koch) in 2026/27. He and the Dennis Duszczak in 2020 staged four plays at the Schauspiel in Dortmund after meeting in 2020 and team up again for Andere Leute / Other People for Schauspielfrankfurt in 2026/27. He qualified as professional set painter at Theater Bremen before studying set and costume design, film and exhibition construction at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg from 2011 - 2015. After graduating with honours he worked assisting set designers at the Residenztheatre in Munich from 2015 - 2018, with people including Aleksandar Denić, Raimund Orfeo Voigt and Ulrich Rasche. During this time he started working regularly with the director Mirjam Loibl. His work has been seen at places including Bavaria's State Schauspiele, the Berlin Ensemble, the Staatsopers Unter den Linden in Berlin and Hannover, Bergen's Nasjonale Opera in Norway and the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. GRM Brainfuck was invited to the Volkstheater in Munich's 2023 Festival Radikal Jung. Other projects took him to JOIN at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart in 2023 and back to Theater Bremen, where it all began. After he created his first spatial design for Barbora Horáková's production of Carmen at the Staatsoper in Hannover in 2020 they have joined forces for other projects at leading international opera houses. Thilo Ullrich was a scholarship holder of the Akademie Musiktheater heute, his class working together to create The Night of the Sea Urchins at the Staatsoper Hamburg.in 2019. Thilo Ullrich is an Akademie Musiktheater heute Alumnus.