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Jo Schramm made his debut in theatre in the lighting department of the Schauspiel Stuttgart. He worked there for four seasons before studying architecture at the Stuttgart Art Academy and scenography/media art at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. Since then, he has been working as a stage designer, lighting and video artist for theatre, dance and opera.

Productions featuring his stage designs have been invited to the Berlin, Swiss and Chinese Theatertreffen, the Vienna Festival, the Autorentheatertage at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, the Prague Theater Festival, the TeArt Festival in Minsk and the Radikal Jung Festival in Munich.

His work has been proposed several times as stage design of the year in the magazines ‘Theater heute’ and ‘Opernwelt’.

He was nominated for the German Theatre Prize DER FAUST in 2018 for ‘Medea’ at the Schauspiel Hannover and in 2023 for the opera world premiere ‘Dogville’ at the Aalto Musiktheater in Essen.

In 2026, he was honoured with the OPER! AWARDS as ‘Best Set Designer’.

He lives with his family in Berlin.