After studying general and comparative literature, political science and history, Angela Obst worked as a dramaturge at the Residenztheater in Munich from 2009 to 2019. There she worked regularly with directors such as Frank Castorf, for example in Journey to the End of Night after Louis-Ferdinand Céline (2013, Theatertreffen 2014) and Brecht's Baal (Theatertreffen 2015), with Martin Kušej, e.g. in Goethe's Faust (NESTROY Prize 2014), with Anne Lenk and others. In 2018 Angela Obst was a member of the jury of the Mülheimer Theatertage NRW. From 2015 to 2019, she was a lecturer in the directing course (by Prof. Sebastian Baumgarten) at the Bavarian Theatre Academy August Everding. Since 2019 she has been teaching the directing course at Folkwang University of the Arts Essen (Director: Prof. Lisa Nielebock).

In 2019, she began working as a dramaturg at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. She accompanied productions by, among others, Johan Simons (Anton Chekhov's Ivanov and Shakespeare's King Lear), Mateja Koležnik (Gorky's Children of the Sun, invited to the Theatertreffen 2023), Oliver Frljic, Robert Borgmann and Dušan David Pařízek and developed the short film series Bochum Short Cuts. She also adapted Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot (Thalia Theater Hamburg, 2021) and Luis Buñuel's Der Würgeengel (Schauspielhaus Bochum, 2023) for the stage, among others. Angela Obst was voted Dramaturg of the Year in 2024 by the theatre magazine Theater Heute.

From 2018 to 2022, Angela Obst was also dramaturgically in charge of the productions of Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival. Since the 2023/24 season, Angela Obst has been head dramaturge, and since the 2024/25 seanson the deputy director at the Schauspielhaus Bochum.

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