Beren Tuna and Hannah Nagel

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Beren Tuna (*1980, raised in Turkey and Germany) completed her acting training in 2006 at the HMT (now ZHdK). Since then, she has worked as a freelance artist. As an actress, she has performed at venues including the Staatstheater Braunschweig, Theater Basel, Neuköllner Oper Berlin, Konzert Theater Bern, and Bühne Aarau. In 2016, Beren Tuna won the Swiss Film Award for Best Actress for her role in the feature film Köpek (directed by Esen Işık). She is currently performing in the production Stilles Geld by the group radikal plüsch at Theater Winkelwiese. Since 2018, Beren Tuna has been regularly creating her own theater productions, in which she directs and/or performs on stage. For her own projects, she has collaborated with Gessnerallee, Fabriktheater, Theater Chur, Schlachthaus Theater, and sogar theater. Beren Tuna is interested in taking on roles in conceptualization, leadership, and/or acting, depending on the context of the work. She continuously navigates this intersection, exploring the interplay of these different positions and collective work processes. Key thematic pillars in her work include storytelling from a female* perspective and examining how, in a post-migrant society, alternative narratives can challenge the perception of "the Other." Beren Tuna is a co-founder and board member of the FemaleAct association, where she advocates for equality and diversity in film and theater. In this context, she is connected with various activist initiatives in Switzerland that work in their own ways toward a more inclusive and sustainable theater practice without discrimination.

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Hannah Nagel (*1996, she/her), born near Cologne, studied Theatre Studies, Art History, and Psychology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Università degli Studi di Padova. She worked as an assistant at various city theaters, most recently at Luzerner Theater. There, she presented her first independent productions, including the classroom play Die Eisbärin by Eva Rottmann, Bilder deiner grossen Liebe by Wolfgang Herrndorf, and the stage adaptation of Nele Pollatschek's novel Kleine Probleme. With her performance POPSTAR PAPA, she won the Tankstelle Bühne award. Hannah is particularly interested in themes, texts, and characters by and about FLINTA (women, lesbian, intersex, non-binary, trans, and agender) individuals of all ages. She focuses on reimagining familiar narratives and enjoys exploring the political dimensions of classical stories, creating visibility for marginalized experiences, and negotiating the complexity of human existence.