Uta Plate is a theatre-maker, lecturer and producer. From 1999-2014, she was head theatre pedagogue at the Schaubühne Berlin.
Since 2014, Uta Plate has been working internationally as a freelance producer and lecturer. Her focal areas are: citizens’ theatre projects, documentary international research, inter-generative projects (particularly with refugees and locals) and drama activities with socially marginalised groups (particularly in the penal system).
She was involved in participatory film activities with Aaike Stuart: ‘Wir sind GESTERN HEUTE MORGEN’ (we are yesterday – today – tomorrow), ‘FERNE GEFÄHRTEN’ (distant companions).
In 2021, Uta Plate founded the HIATUS collective with musicians Duri Collenberg and Lukas Rickli, with whom she develops audio-video walks for the Bremen Opera and the ‘Musiktheater im Revier’ (Music Theatre in the Ruhr – MiR), Gelsenkirchen.
In addition, she teaches at universities in Berlin, Gießen, Hildesheim, Hanover, Copenhagen (Denmark) and Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso).
Publications (with Wiebke von Bernstorff): ‘Fremd bleiben – interkulturelle Theaterarbeit’ (staying a stranger – intercultural drama activities’).