A mask theatre piece
Tickets and info: td.berlin/stuecke/kukur-ku
December 11–14, 2025, 8 PM, TD Berlin
Stage Director
Opera & Theatre
Upcoming Works
Kukuriku / Yoram Kaniuk
Kain und Abel / Felix Weingartner || De Profundis / Lili Boulanger
A double evening of music theatre
Tickets and info: staatstheater-darmstadt.de/veranstaltungen/kain-und-abel.2037
Premiere: March 28, 2026
Kerem Hillel
Kerem Hillel is a stage director for theatre, opera, and puppetry based in Berlin. His work centers on an interdisciplinary practice that weaves together genres, sources, identities, and times. Through his work, he explores the nature of human relationships- to oneself, to history, and to the societies we live in.
“In Kerem Hillel’s coherently crafted adaptation of Wagner’s opera, everything revolves around “desire and need,” addressing one of humanity’s central questions… The many details in the children’s opera make it an absolute must-see—musically, dramaturgically, and emotionally.”
- Klassik begeistert, 2024-
“A razor-sharp theatrical collage... Hillel constructs a mirror of contemporary ideology with humor, anger, and precision. MEGA is a performance that exposes the mythologies of power in the language of theatre itself.”
– Hessenschau, 2025, on MEGA (Staatstheater Darmstadt)
“Kerem Hillel stages Wagner’s Flying Dutchman at the Green Hill in Bayreuth – an intelligent and inspired production that transforms the opera into a vivid and imaginative world for young audiences.”
– Jüdische Allgemeine Zeitung, 2024
“The jung director Kerem Hillel delivered everything that true Wagnerians—and those aspiring to be—could dream of: a prominently cast, highly sophisticated children’s production of The Flying Dutchman, with depth and infectious theatrical joy.”
– Feuilletonscout, 2024
“An intense and visually striking production... Hillel’s direction creates a poetic, image-driven theatre that balances vulnerability with precision.”
– Fidena – Portal für Figurentheater und Puppetry Art, 2025, on Schlafes Bruder
“Hillel’s poetic staging, sustained by a precise dramaturgy of light and color, translates Schönberg’s symbol-laden texts into a finely composed visual language of movement, dance, and object theatre.”
– Neue Musikzeitung (nmz), 2021, on Pierrot lunaire