Joseph Wegmann

Joseph Wegmann

Joseph Wegmann studied directing and design at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts from 2008-2012, developing work that communicates through visuals, the sensorium and rhythm.

He then moved to Berlin where he assisted and worked with artists such as Ariel Efraim Ashbel and apparatus / Stefanie Wenner + Thorsten Eibeler and developed showings at ET Berlin, including interactive events with Eleot Reich (band: VOLK) and solo performances with Minna Partanen. He worked together with Björn Pätz and Björn Frers under the label björn & björn from 2016-2019 as a producer with artists Liz Rosenfeld, Melanie Jame Wolf, Dragana Bulut and Public in Private / Clément Layes.

Currently, he engages in ongoing artistic collaborations with: Ariel Efraim Ashbel and friends, Ligia Lewis, Simone Aughterlony, Jen Rosenblit, and Liz Rosenfeld, among others.
A first sketch of his work-in-progress "dissociate” was shown as part of Dirty Debüt in February 2019 at Sophiensæle Berlin.

Collaborating most frequently as part of multidisciplinary projects, he pursues ways in which light can materialize beyond illumination.

check out his sketchbook for some more work samples

Education

2008–12
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts
  • New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Playwrights Horizons Theater School, NYC
  • Major: Directing and Design
  • Minors: Performance Studies, German Lanugage and Literature
  • 2004-08
  • H.S. Diploma
  • Long Island High School for the Arts, NY, USA
  • Majors: Theater
  • Minor: Lighting Design
  • 2004-08
  • H.S. Diploma
  • Harborfields High School, NY, USA
  • Academic Degree
  • Minor: Architecture
  • Works

    2027
  • Change
  • by Heiki Riipinen
  • Stage, Light, Video
  • Premiere: Berliner Ensemble, Berlin (DE)
  • 2026
  • The Rant That Can't
  • by Ligia Lewis
  • Light
  • Fierce Festival, Birmingham (UK)
  • Premiere: Somerset House, London (UK)
  • 2026
  • Enfleshed
  • by Liz Rosenfeld, Ligia Lewis
  • Light, Video
  • Premiere: HAU3, Berlin (CH)
  • 2026
  • All Rise
  • by Joseph Baan
  • Light, Video
  • Premiere: Tanzhaus Zurich, § (CH)
  • 2026
    2026
    2025
  • Wayward Chant
  • by Ligia Lewis
  • Light
  • Somerset House, London (UK)
  • Fierce Festival, Birmingham (UK)
  • Premiere: Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (DE)
  • 2025-26
  • Apocalypso
  • by Justin F. Kennedy
  • Light
  • My Wild Flag, Stockholm (SE)
  • Premiere: Sophiensaele, Berlin (DE)
  • 2025
  • The Omer Count: Tikkun Sukkot
  • by Ariel Efraim Ashbel and friends
  • Light
  • Premiere: Sophiensaele, Berlin (DE)
  • 2025-26
  • My Kingdom for a Joke
  • by Ariel Efraim Ashbel and friends
  • Light, Video
  • Kampnagel, Hamburg (DE)
  • FFT Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (DE)
  • Premiere: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (DE)
  • 2025-26
  • Some Thing Folk
  • by Ligia Lewis x Cullberg
  • Light
  • PACT Zollverein, Essen (DE)
  • Kulturhuset, Stockholm (DE)
  • Premiere: Tanz im August – HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (DE)
  • 2025-26
  • Homopticum
  • by Andrey Bogush & Juan Pablo Cámara
  • Light, Video
  • Sophiensaele, Berlin (DE)
  • Premiere: Kiasma Theater, Finnland (FI)
  • 2025
  • a name / שם
  • by Ariel Efraim Ashbel and friends
  • Light
  • Premiere: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (DE)
  • 2024–25
  • Edgelands
  • by Simone Aughterlony & Jen Rosenblit
  • Light, Video
  • Installation & Performance Premiere: ProtoZone 17: Stories of those left behind – Shedhalle, Zürich (CH)
  • 2024
  • The Omer Count: Tikkun Leil Shavu'Ot
  • by Ariel Efraim Ashbel and friends
  • Light, Video
  • Premiere: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (DE)
  • 2024
  • The Omer Count: Fanny Girl
  • by Ariel Efraim Ashbel and friends
  • Video
  • Premiere: Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (DE)
  • 2024-25
  • Natural Acts
  • by Perel
  • Light, Video
  • Kampnagel, Hamburg (DE)
  • Premiere: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (DE)
  • 2024
    2024
  • Shall I Build A Dam?
  • by Kai Kobayashi, Simone Aughterlony, Joseph Wegmann
  • Stage, Costume, Video, Light
  • Tischlerei – Deutsche Oper, Berlin (DE)
  • Premiere: Münchner Biennale, Schwere Reiter, Munich (DE)
  • 2024
    2025-26
  • Tower of Silence
  • by studio LABOUR
  • Light, Video
  • Premiere: Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin (DE)
  • 2024-25
    2023-24
  • Fiddler! A Musical
  • by Ariel Efraim Ashbel and friends
  • Light
  • Kampnagel, Hamburg (DE)
  • FFT Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (DE)
  • Premiere: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (DE)
  • 2023-25
  • Third Skin
  • by Ana Lessing Menjibar
  • Co-Light
  • Radialsystem, Berlin (DE)
  • Zentralwerk, Dresded (DE)
  • Replika Teatro, Madrid (ES)
  • MOVE! Festival, Krefeld (DE)
  • tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf (DE)
  • Premiere: Uferstudios, Berlin (DE)
  • 2023
  • URSA-X
  • by Liz Rosenfeld
  • Light
  • Kampnagel, Hamburg (DE)
  • Premiere: Sophiensæle, Berlin (DE)
  • 2023
    2022-23
    2022-25
  • A Plot / A Scandal
  • by Ligia Lewis
  • Light
  • La Caldera, Barcelona (ES)
  • Moving in November Festival, Helsinki (FI)
  • EMPAC, Troy, New York (US)
  • Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (US)
  • SPRING Festival, Utrecht (NL)
  • MoCA, Los Angeles (US)
  • Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE)
  • Points Communs, Cergy Pontoise (FR)
  • Tanzquartier Vienna, Vienna (AT)
  • Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne (CH)
  • Kaserne Basel, Basel (CH)
  • VierNulVier, Gent (BE)
  • Premiere: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (DE)
  • Pre-Premiere: Ruhrtriennale, Bochum (DE)
  • 2022
    2022
    2021-23
  • MOONSTRUCK: In Praise of Shadows
  • by Ariel Efraim Ashbel and friends
  • Light
  • De Singel, Antwerp (BE)
  • Gessnerallee, Zürich (CH)
  • FFT Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (DE)
  • Premiere: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (DE)
  • 2021–24
  • Still Not Still
  • by Ligia Lewis
  • Light
  • Points Communs, Cergy (FR)
  • Points Communs, Paris (FR)
  • HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (DE)
  • Short Theatre, Rome (IT)
  • SPRING Festival, Utrecht (NL)
  • Muffathalle, Munich (DE)
  • Mousonturm, Frankfurt (DE)
  • Gessnerallee, Zürich (CH)
  • Tanzplattform - HAU1, Berlin (DE)
  • Blackbox Oslo, Oslo (NO)
  • Vooruit, Gent (BE)
  • Tanzquartier Vienna, Vienna (AT)
  • Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne (CH)
  • DIG Festival - Tramway, Glasgow (GB)
  • tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf (DE)
  • Premiere: HAU1 Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (DE)
  • 2021–22
    2021
    2020–22
    2020
  • 2170
  • by Julia Wissert
  • Light & Stage
  • Premiere: Theater Dortmund (D)
  • 2020–22
  • Future Fortune
  • by Dragana Bulut
  • Light
  • Premiere: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (D)
  • 2020
  • Question of Belief
  • by Kareth Schaffer
  • Light
  • Premiere: Sophiensaele, Berlin (D)
  • 2019
  • Consimity
  • by Minna Partanen
  • Light
  • Premiere: Uferstudios, Berlin (D)
  • 2019-20
  • No Apocalypse Not Now
  • by Ariel Efraim Ashbel and friends
  • Light
  • Schauspielhaus Bochum, Bochum (D)
  • Kampnagel, Hamburg (D)
  • FFT Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (D)
  • Premiere: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (D)
  • Pre-Premiere: steirischer herbst Festival, Orpheum Theater, Graz (A)
  • 2019
    2019
  • ONON
  • by Public in Private / Clément Layes
  • Production
  • Premiere: Sophiensaele, Berlin (D)
  • 2019-21
  • TONIGHT
  • by Melanie Jame Wolf
  • Production
  • Wiederaufnahme: Sophiensaele, Berlin (D)
  • Premiere: Sophiensaele, Berlin (D)
  • 2019
  • dissociate
  • by Joseph Wegmann
  • Concept, Direction, Light
  • Dirty Debüt #4 - "Sleep", Sophiensaele, Berlin (D)
  • 2018-20
  • Happyology
  • by Dragana Bulut
  • Light, Production
  • Gessnerallee, Zürich (CH)
  • euroscene Festival, LOFFT Theater, Leipzig (D)
  • Impulse Festival, tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf (D)
  • Premiere: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (D)
  • 2018–20
  • Water Will (In Melody)
  • by Ligia Lewis
  • Touring Light
  • Venice Biennale 2020
  • 2018-19
    2018
    2018
    2018
    2017-19
  • Diva: Celebrating Oum Kalthoum
  • by Ariel Efraim Ashbel and friends
  • Light
  • Schauspielhaus Bochum, Bochum (D)
  • Kampnagel, Hamburg (D)
  • Favoriten Festival, Dortmund (D)
  • FFT Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (D)
  • Premiere: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (D)
  • Uferstudios, Berlin (D)
  • 2017
    2017-20
  • minor matter
  • by Ligia Lewis
  • Light – Further Development and Touring
  • On the Boards, Seattle (USA)
  • Performance Space, New York (USA)
  • Basel (CH)
  • Oslo (NO)
  • Santiago de Compostela (ES)
  • Campo, Gent (B)
  • Avignon (FR)
  • La Villette, Paris (F)
  • Porto (P)
  • Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich (D)
  • Santarcangelo Festivcal, Santarcangelo (IT)
  • Tel Aviv (IL)
  • OGR, Turin (IL)
  • Julidans Festival, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
  • PACT Zollverein, Essen (D)
  • American Realness, Abrons Art Center, New York (USA)
  • 2017
  • HIGHNESS
  • by Melanie Jame Wolf
  • Production
  • Sophiensaele, Berlin (D)
  • 2017
    2016
  • Magical Acts Matter
  • by apparatus
  • Project Assitant, Touring Light
  • Kampnagel, Hamburg (D)
  • FFT Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (D)
  • Sophiensaele, Berlin (D)
  • 2016
  • Really Usfeul Theater
  • by apparatus
  • Production Assistant
  • Kampnagel, Hamburg (D)
  • FFT Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (D)
  • Sophiensaele, Berlin (D)
  • 2015-16
    2016
  • untitled
  • by Joseph Wegmann, Minna Partanen, Christoph Buchegger
  • Concept, Direction, Light
  • DAT Contemporary Festival, Berlin (D)
  • 2015
  • Next Time
  • by Minna Partanen
  • Direction, Light
  • Expat Expo Festival, ET Berlin, Berlin (D)
  • 2015
  • Interdependency
  • by Joseph Wegmann
  • Concept, Direction, Light
  • LAB Program, ET Berlin, Berlin (D)
  • 2015
  • Schwarz gemacht
  • by Daniel Brunet
  • Assistant Director
  • ET Berlin, Berlin (D)
  • 2014
  • Theater der Welt
  • Artistic Director: Matthias Lilienthal
  • Production Manager
  • Mannheimer Sommer, Nationaltheater Mannheim @ Schloss Schwetzingen, Mannheim (D)
  • 2014
  • Echter Berliner !!! Ihr nicht Fuck You
  • by Daniel Brunet
  • Assistant Director
  • ET Berlin, Berlin (D)
  • 2013
  • New Works from New People
  • by Joseph Wegmann
  • Direction
  • Readings Series, ET Berlin, Berlin (D)
  • 2013
  • Arm-but-Sexy
  • by Joseph Wegmann, Eleot Reich
  • Concept, Direction, Light
  • Expat Expo Festival, ET Berlin, Berlin (D)
  • 2012
  • USHER
  • by Joseph Wegmann
  • Concept, Direction, Light
  • Robert Moss Theater, New York (USA)
  • 2012
  • Soho Repertory Theater
  • Artistic Director: Sarah Benson
  • Assistant to the Artistic Director
  • New York (USA)
  • 2011
  • cocaine
  • by Joseph Wegmann
  • Concept, Direction, Light
  • Studio Theater, New York (USA)
  • 2012
  • Soap Opera
  • The Machine Comedy Collective
  • Associate Director, Light
  • Gotham City Improv, New York (USA)
  • 2012
  • Election!
  • The Machine Comedy Collective
  • Associate Director, Light
  • Gotham City Improv, New York (USA)
  • 2012
  • Graduation (Friends Forever)
  • The Machine Comedy Collective
  • Associate Director, Light
  • Bowery Poetry Club, New York (USA)
  • 2012
  • Sex! Let’s Talk About it! The Late Night Show!
  • The Machine Comedy Collective
  • Associate Director, Light
  • Bowery Poetry Club, New York (USA)
  • 2012
  • Public vs. Private: The Battle for Raoul Greenberg
  • The Machine Comedy Collective
  • Associate Director, Light
  • Bowery Poetry Club, New York (USA)
  • 2012
  • Extra Credit
  • The Machine Comedy Collective
  • Associate Director, Light
  • Bowery Poetry Club
  • 2011-12
  • Pageant!
  • The Machine Comedy Collective
  • Associate Director, Light
  • Gotham City Improv, New York (USA)
  • Bowery Poetry Club, New York (USA)
  • 2011
  • Food!
  • The Machine Comedy Collective
  • Associate Director, Light
  • Bowery Poetry Club, New York (USA)
  • 2011
  • DICK on DICK
  • The Machine Comedy Collective
  • Associate Director, Light
  • Bowery Poetry Club, New York (USA)
  • 2011
  • my struggle
  • The Machine Comedy Collective
  • Associate Director, Light
  • White Box / 440, New York (USA)
  • 2010-12
  • i HATE the naughties!!!
  • The Machine Comedy Collective
  • Associate Director, Light
  • Bowery Poetry Club, New York (USA)
  • Gotham City Improv, New York (USA)
  • Meetinghouse Theatre, Philadelphia (USA)
  • White Box / 440, New York (USA)
  • 2009
  • Wright/Nixon
  • Jaime Wright
  • Light
  • White Box / 440, New York (USA)
  • Grants and Residencies

    2020
  • Frankfurt LAB
  • Residency
  • 2019
  • dissociate
  • work-in-progress showing commissioned through Dirty Debüt, funded by the German Hauptstadtkulturfonds
  • 2008-12
  • Tisch School of the Arts
  • 100,000 USD toward University Tuition
  • 2008
  • Seymore Wiener Scholarship
  • 10,000 USD toward University Tuition