William Bartley Cooper was born 1995 in Bad Tölz. He studied at the Ballet Academy of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München from 2005 to 2011 and at the Otto Falckenberg Schule from 2014 to 2018. His first guest engagements took him to the Residenztheater and the Münchner Kammerspiele, where he worked with directors such as Trajal Harrell, Ulrich Rasche, Mateja Koležnik and Kevin Barz. In 2017 he was awarded the O.E. Hasse-Preis der Akademie der Künste in Berlin. Since the 2018/2019 season he is a member of the ensemble of Schauspielhaus Bochum.
Current roles:
- Dantons Tod
- Es liegt was in der Luft
- Voodoo Waltz
- Verflechtungen. Das Leben der Haare
- Das neue Leben
- Vincent / Jules in Dem Freund, der mir das Leben nicht gerettet hat
- Theodor in Der geheimnisvolle Fremde
- SPLASH – un/coming of age
Past roles:
- Baroque
- Die Grüngekleidete / Monsieur Ballon / Koch in Peer Gynt
- Der unsichtbare Mann
- Quizoola!
- Introducing... Hervé Guibert
- Bevollmächtigter in Mysterien
- Ismene / Haimon in antigone. ein requiem / Die Politiker
- Foyer der Tiere
- Die unglaubliche Geschichte vom kleinen Roboterjungen
- Leonce und Lena
- Ankunft in Europa
- Robinson in Me, a Robinson.
- Séance de travail
- New Joy
- White People’s Problems / The Evil Dead
William Cooper
(c) Julia Sellmann
Baroque William Cooper
© Fred Debrock
Baroque: William Cooper
© Fred Debrock
Das neue Leben: William Cooper
© Jörg Brüggemann / Ostkreuz
Michael Lippold, William Cooper, Konstantin Bühler (v. li.)
© Matthias Horn
William Bartley Cooper
(c) Joseph Kadow