ANNA LUCA KRASSNIGG
Artistic Director
Director, author, theatre maker. Full professor for directing at the Max Reinhardt Seminar of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Founder and artistic director of Wortwiege and the international Sea Change Initiative.
She has realized numerous productions and text versions for the Staatstheater Braunschweig, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Schauspiel Dortmund, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zürich, Grand Théâtre Luxemburg, Schauspielhaus Wien, Theater in der Josefstadt, Festspiele Reichenau and Wiener Festwochen, among others. She has also developed numerous interdisciplinary and inter-creative events worldwide in the field of performing arts and between the arts and humanities.
Under her artist name Anna Luca Poloni, she is internationally active as a lyricist, singer and performer in the cinematic music theatre duo Fox On Ice.
CHRISTIAN MAIR
Commercial Director
Composer, musician, videographer, visual designer and theatre and film producer. He is the founder and managing director of Wortwiege and formerly of Salon5 and the Thalhof Festival.
He has worked artistically at venues including the Schauspielhaus Wien, Theater in der Josefstadt Vienna, Théâtre National du Luxembourg, Grand Théâtre Luxembourg, Kapuzinertheater Luxembourg, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Festspiele Reichenau, Schauspiel Dortmund, Metro Kinokulturhaus Vienna, the European Capital of Culture Linz09, and the Wiener Festwochen.
As a composer and musician, he has developed numerous film and stage scores as well as concept albums, including “Power to Hurt” with Raphael von Bargen. Together with Anna Luca Poloni (aka Krassnigg), he forms the internationally touring music theatre duo Fox On Ice.
