Sebastian Schug (1979) worked at Berlin’s Sophiensaele Theater and the Tron Theatre (Royal Academy) in Glasgow already while studying directing at the Ernst-Busch-Schule Theater Academy. His graduation production, based on Lorca’s play When Five Years Pass, was invited to the International Theater Festival in Warsaw and to the Bensheimer Woche junger Schauspieler (Bensheim Week of Young Actors), where it won the award for best ensemble. In 2006, the Leverkusen native was named Young Director of the Year by the Academy of Performing Arts. Since 2005, Schug has been working as an independent director. His productions have been staged at venues including the Sophiensaele Berlin, Staatstheater Kassel, Staatstheater Hannover, Schauspielhaus Wien, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Volkstheater Wien, and Theater Münster, where he garnered attention with a six-hour production of Das Vermächtnis (The Inheritance) based on a work by Matthew López. He has also collaborated with the Nationaltheater Weimar, the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, the Theater Basel, and the Volksbühne Berlin.

From 2007 to 2009, he was the resident director at the Theater der Stadt in Heidelberg, where he successfully staged, among other works, Trier’s Idiots, Shakespeare’s As You Like It, and Chekhov’s Ivanov. In addition to classic works, he also adapts contemporary material, for example, at Bühnen Bern, he adapted Kim de l'Horizon's novel Blood Book. He is also active as a translator.