English Theatre Berlin has served as the host of English-language program segments for several international theater festivals in Berlin for more than a decade and began to produce its own festivals in 2013 with the Expat Expo and The Full Irish.
Selected collaborations include the 48th Berliner Festwochen / The Next Generation: Out to Lunch with The Food Chain by Nicky Silver in 1998, BeckettinBerlin 2000 with Gare St Lazare Players´ Molloy by Samuel Beckett.
We have served as a venue for The Gorillas’ International Festival for Improvisational Theater from 2001 to 2023.
THE FULL IRISH and IRISH THEATRE BERLIN
In 2013, The Full Irish was a festival dedicated to contemporary Irish theater and performance featuring The Company, Gare St Lazare Players and Brokentalkers, in addition to a four-play reading series as well as visual/performance art and music programming. In 2024, the Irish Theatre Berlin festival followed with productions by Brokentalkers, Pan Pan Theatre, Dee Mulrooney/Growler, Fishamble (Pat Kinevane and Eva O´Connor) plus our new production of Beckett´s Happy Days featuring Mary Kelly, directed by Walter Asmus.
FOCUS CANADA
In 2022 Celia Green´s Wah Wah Wah and CUE6 Productions´ White Heat plus four years earlier, in 2018, Selfconscious Productions with We Keep Coming Back and Mouthpiece by Quote Unquote Collective made up our FOCUS CANADA, a festival that was interrupted by the COVID pandemic.