Romy Springsguth, born in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz), is a stage and costume designer for international theatre and opera productions. She works in contemporary dance and as a set designer for film productions. She completed her studies in stage design, costume design and scenography at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee under Peter Schubert and Roland Schimmelpfennig in 2006 with her diploma production at the Volksbühne Berlin.

She works closely with Ulrich Rasche (including Agamemnon at the Athens Epidaurus Festival & Residenztheater Munich; Das grosse Heft at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2019; Leonce und Lena at Deutsches Theater Berlin; Elektra at Grand Theâtre de Genève; ‘Johannespassion’ at Staatsoper Stuttgart) as well as with Annalena Fröhlich (e.g. Sonder - decoratelier Bruxelles, Dampfzentrale Bern) and Claudia Bossard (e.g. Der Zauberberg, Volkstheater Munich)

Set designs, spaces and costumes have also been created in recent seasons for productions by Richard Maxwell/ NewYork City Players (Theater Basel/ Abrons Art Center NewYork/TFANA NewYork), Bernhard Mikeska, Ludger Engels, Julia Lwowski/music theatre collective Hauen & Stechen, Tina Pfurr, Roger Vontobel and Muhammed Kaltuk.

She also works regularly in various artistic collaborations in the Swiss film and theatre scene (including theatre scene in Switzerland (including VORORT, Cynthia Gonzales, Fröhlich/Gao, Kämpf/Urweider/ Schwabenland) and is part of the dance theatre collective deRothfils, with whom she has toured internationally and created dance performances and films.

Romy Springsguth was responsible for the set design/art direction of the cinema film Alle reden übers Wetter by Annika Pinske (premiere at the Berlinale / Berlin International Film Festival 2022, Panorama section).

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