Christine Schmalor
Acting teacher, researcher
After studying in Berlin and USA, Christine Schmalor worked as a freelance director until she turned to practical research of acting methods and teaching.
Together with Dr. Jurij Alschitz, she founded the International Theatre Centre AKT-ZENT in 1995 in Berlin, today known as the World Theatre Training Institute AKT-ZENT / ITI.
As programme director since 1995, she develops and conducts European and international collaborative theatre research programmes; currently The World Theatre Training Library / Laboratory and M.A. programme Teaching Professional Theatre Practice.
As researcher, she is responsible for the curriculum development of this Master Degree and the methodological documentation of the Institute’s work results. She built the first hybrid theatre platform for online education launched in 2017. In 2020 she launched the ⇒Online-Theatre-Academy.
As trainer, she teaches a wide range of acting subjects in online, hybrid and face-to-face formats. She works with the Team of Teachers of the European Association for Theatre Culture (EATC), and at various academies.
The numerous international laboratories and productions of AKT-ZENT have been supported by her since the beginning as a coach, often also as a musician and actress.
As editor, she launched „ars incognita” which publishes theatre teaching books, with the aim of creating a forum for practical theatre research. Editor of the teaching handbooks of Jurij Alschitz.
As networker for cultural affairs, Christine Schmalor served first as vice-president, and later from 2004-2011 as president of the ⇒ITI – Theatre Education & Training Committee; since 2018, she is board member of the ⇒ITI/UNESCO Network for Higher Education in the Performing Arts, since 2022, she is member of the advisory board of the ⇒International Association of Theatre Leaders IATL.
As expert, she participated in international congresses on theatre education; was invited as speaker or as adviser for the Bologna Process and as jury-member of international theatre school festivals.
As a freelance artist, she repeatedly devotes herself to particular themes, initially exploring them without specific purpose before integrating them into her various projects.