About

Lena Newton, born in Munich, Germany, is a theatre designer based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She studied at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam and Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam. In Lena Newton’s work, video and film are integral to the development of her stage concepts. Since 2007, she has designed stage sets and videos for performances by director Susanne Kennedy at the National Theatre The Hague, Volksbühne Berlin and Münchner Kammerspiele. The productions ‘Fegefeuer in Ingolstadt’ and ‘Warum läuft Herr R. Amok?’ were invited to the Berlin theatre festival ‘Berliner Theatertreffen’ in 2014 and 2015. Her set design for ‘Drei Schwestern’, at Münchner Kammerspiele, was nominated for ‘Stage Design of the Year’ by the journal ‘Theater Heute’ in 2019. In Germany, Lena Newton has worked with theatre directors Sebastian Baumgarten, Lola Arias and with the collective andcompany&co, at HAU Berlin, Schauspiel Hannover, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Residenztheater Munich and others. In The Netherlands, she has worked with directors Sarah Moeremans, Eric de Vroedt, Davy Pieters, with the performance duo Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot, and with the choreographer Nicole Beutler. Since 2019, Lena Newton has been a professor at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany.