Oliver Urbanski

OLIVER URBANSKI studied acting at the renown Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts.

His first engagement took him to the Berliner Ensemble, where he worked with Luc Bondy, Robert Wilson, Claus Peymann and Peter Zadek, whose ensemble he then joined for four years.

Peter Zadek wrote about this time in his biography: “We had a perfect cast for all the roles. The fool, for example, was a young brilliant actor, Oliver Urbanski, who can do everything. He plays five instruments perfectly, he has his own jazz group, stages music himself and is not yet thirty years old.”

Guest appearances and tours have taken him to the Vienna Festival, the Edinbourgh Festival, the Ruhr Festival and the Ruhrtriennale.

In addition to his work at German theaters, Oliver Urbanski can also be seen as an emcee in the musical Cabaret in the Bar Jeder Vernunft/TIPI am Kanzleramt in Berlin and in cinema and television films, most recently in the American cinema production „I'll Find You" directed by Martha Coolidge and in the German film production „The Dark Heart“ directed by Andreas Herzog.

As a theater musician, he composed and played for 50 productions, for the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Schauspielhaus Bochum and the Munich Volkstheater. The Schaubühne at Lehniner Platz, for productions by directors Christoph Mehler, Bettina Bruinier, Claus Peymann, Marius von Mayenburg and Peter Zadek.

He is a guest lecturer at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts. 

As a theater director he worked in Venice, Italy, Klagenfurt, Austria and Germany. For the production of „The Little Ghost“ at the Bad Hersfeld Festival, he was also responsible for the adaptation, the lyrics and the musical composition.

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