Julia Penner

Julia Penner was born in Wuppertal in 1981. She studied at the renowned acting school Ernst Busch in Berlin. Afterwards, she was a member of the ensembles of the Stadttheater Konstanz and of the Schauspiel Frankfurt. She then began working freelance in Israel, Armenia and Paris in multi-discipline projects. Since 2012, Julia Penner has been working as author, director and theatre educator in Berlin, Wuppertal, Potsdam and Celle. Up to 2016, she studied scriptwriting at the DFFB. She is a member of the writers’ collective Q3. In 2015, she was invited to the Cannes film festival with her short film nicht zu früh und nicht zu spät. In the same year, she was chosen for the renowned programm Serial Eyes where she develops tv series for the international market alongside other European authors.