Stephan Müller

Stephan Müller (born 7 July 1951) is a Swiss theatre and opera director, dramaturge and a teacher of multimedia Aesthetics.

Life Stephan Müller was born at Oberbuchsiten (SO). Between 1980 and 1988 he worked as a freelance play director in Cologne, Düsseldorf, Tübingen, Basel, Nuremberg, Frankfurt, Hamburg (Kampnagel), San Francisco and New York (Public Theatre).

In 1988 he returned to the Theater Basel where by now Frank Baumbauer had taken over. Between 1993 and 1999, jointly with Volker Hesse, Müller took charge at the Theater am Neumarkt ("New Market Theatre") in Zürich. During this period the theatre's productions were particularly well regarded in German-speaking parts of Europe. Between 1999 and 2004 he worked at the Burgtheater in Vienna as a drama director and dramaturge. More recently he has been heading up the Master of Arts theatre production degree course at the Zurich University of the Arts, while also working as a freelance drama director.