Fiona Wiedmann is an award winning Scottish-German director and theatre maker based in Berlin. Her love for theatre began early and evolved into a career rooted in curiosity, collaboration, and cross-cultural storytelling. After earning a Master’s degree in Theatre Practice & Production from the University of Galway (Distinction), Fiona’s career began to gain momentum across Europe. 

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She continually seeks new artistic impulses and has trained with renowned companies including Company of Wolves (Glasgow), Junk Ensemble (Ireland), and the Berliner Ensemble. Fiona partook in intensive directing workshops with Garry Hynes in Galway and was selected in the European Theatre Convention’s Theatre Academy for emerging theatre artists in Avignon (2022). She worked with Moonfish Theatre during their acclaimed sold out run of Redemption Falls at the Galway International Arts Festival, and presented work at festivals such as the Expat Expo at English Theatre Berlin.

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Selected Productions (as director/creator):

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• Searlit Ní Gallachoir – Fantasy Ireland at the Galway Theatre Festival, 2019.

• Pigeon Face at the Jerome Hynes One-Act Play Festival, Galway 2019: WINNER of the Audience Choice Award for Best Play, Best Actor, Best Text.

• Constellations at the Galway Fringe Festival, 2019.

• A Matter of Time: A Party for Earth, as part of her Masters degree final dissertation, 2019.

• Red Stay, Red Stray, as part of her Masters degree, 2018.

• Please Don’t Kill the Weib at Staatsschauspiel Dresden in 2023.

• Fault Lines as part of the graduation plays for Cours Florent Acting School Berlin, 2024.

• Dark Thoughts at The Dog Park at the Berlin Diaries One Act Play Festival 2025: WINNER of the jury award for Best Director, of the Audience Choice Award for Best Director, Best Text & Best Actors.

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Fiona has also worked extensively as an assistant director, notably during the R&D phase of The Bow Maker at the National Theatre of Scotland.

From 2021 to 2023, she worked as Resident Assistant Director at Staatsschauspiel Dresden—one of Germany’s leading and largest state theatres—where she collaborated on numerous productions including: Lulu (dir. Daniela Löffner), Das Leben ist Traum (dir. Tilmann Köhler), Baron Münchhausen (Dir. Rainald Grebe), Android Ergo Sum (Dir. Florian Hertweck), Die Katze Eleonore (Dir. Simon Werdelis), Jason & Medea Medley (dir. Jaz Woodcock-Stewart) and many others. Her time there also included independent work: she led a community theatre group, culminating in Between the Lines, and developed her own experimental piece Please Don’t Kill the Weib.

Whilst there, she created a new monthly evening where the assistants at the theatre could showcase their own work on the black box stage. 

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In addition to directing, Fiona writes for stage and page. Her short play Dearly Distracted was selected for Page 2 Stage Edinburgh, and her poetry has appeared in Visual Verse.​

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Fluent in both English and German, Fiona works internationally and values the creative freedom that travel brings. Outside of theatre, she enjoys being in nature and making music.