About Irina
Irina Brook is an internationally acclaimed opera and theatre director known for her inventive and imaginative productions. Since the success of her first play, “Beast on the Moon”, she has always based her choice of texts and projects around writers and themes that lovingly place humanity and its fragility at the heart of the work.
Three‑time Molière Award Winner
for Best Director and Best Production
1998 • 2000 • 2001
"Irina Brook carries within her the strength of the wild and the wise. From the former, she gets her recklessness, her taste for excess and her access to the sacred. From the latter, she retains a perpetual sense of hard work and of humour, a deep understanding of her subject and extreme clear-sightedness. All this results in a wonderful sense of freedom in her work."
— LE JDD ( Journal du Dimanche )
Upcoming Projects
Theatre • Festival Performance
Lear?
International Shakespeare Festival
Craiova
25 May 2026 • Ramada Plaza Hall, Craiova, Romania
In Irina Brook’s innovative adaptation, “Lear?”, Shakespeare’s tragic masterpiece, King Lear, is meta-theatrically reconfigured, and the plot is set in a home for elderly actors.
Workshop
Theatre Workshop with Irina Brook
Buchinger Wilhelmi
23–28 November 2026 · Lake Constance, Germany
A week of playfulness, curiosity and shared discovery — theatre exercises open to all, no experience required.
Past Projects
House of Us
An immersive, ongoing project exploring isolation, memory, and generational dialogue