Grit Dora von Zeschau has been developing installations, stage sets and costumes for drama, music and dance theatre since 2000. She studied fine arts and scenography at the Dresden University of Fine Arts. She created her first stage and costume design for a production by Hasko Weber at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, with whom she subsequently worked mainly at the Staatstheater Stuttgart. She has worked continuously with the directors Jan Gehler, Ulrich Hub and Nils Zapfe.

As head stage designer at the tjg theatre junge generation, she designed the spatial installation GENERATOR (2017 Federal Theatre Prize) for the opening of the Kraftwerk Mitte Dresden cultural venue in 2016 with productions by Ioannis Mandafounis, Ariel Doron, Jo Parkes and Henrike Iglesias, for which she also developed all the stage and costume designs. In 2018, she created the walk-through installation Eine Spinne wird nicht wütend on the world of the artist Louise Bourgeois for the Dresden State Art Collections' Children's Biennale. As stage and costume designer for the production Tiere essen (directed by Nils Zapfe), she received the Saxon Theatre Prize 2022 and realised the theatre's first sustainability production with the tjg team.

Current roles: