Christine Schmalor

Theatre teacher and creator of international training programmes

Training in classical singing, acting and directing, light design (USA); German literature and theatre science. In 1989 she graduated (M.A.) from the Free University of Berlin and  started as a freelance director with productions in Germany. She became master student of Dr Jurij Alschitz and was co-founder of AKT-ZENT international theatre centre Berlin (1995), today the World Theatre Training Institute/ITI.

She is programme director of all international projects and editor of the institute’s teaching handbooks. From 2000-2011, first vice- then president of the ITI Theatre Education and Training Committee; since 2018 she is board member of  the ITI/UNESCO Network for Higher Education in the Performing Arts, and since 2022 member of the advisory board of the International Association of Theatre Leaders IATL.

After the experimental run at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), she created a curriculum for an M.A. programme Teaching Professional Theatre. Her ongoing artistic research is about new teaching methods for acting including hybrid and online training.