How to do good theatre in this day and age? How can a stage director structure the time from the first rehearsal to opening night such the production, the participants, and the audience all benefit? mdw Magazine learned from two 2026 graduates of the Max Reinhardt Seminar’s Stage Directing programme how a new generation views directorial work—and how they’re implementing this approach in their own projects.

Anna Marboe, born in Vienna in 1996, is a stage director and musician. She studied directing at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, from which she graduated in 2019. mdw Magazine got in touch with this versatile artist recently to talk about her artistic development and creative work.

Kitty Kino, one of the first women to graduate from the directing programme of Film Academy Vienna, looks back on a long and multifaceted career.

Together with his colleagues from coop99, Film Academy graduate Antonin Svoboda is among Austria’s most successful producers and directors.