Dagmar Domrös (Dramaturg, The Woman Before; Cutator. New German Voices) was born in Hamburg. After training as a publishing assistant at the firm Gruner + Jahr, Domrös studied political science, German studies and American studies in Hamburg. She spent the academic year 1996-1997 as a DAAD scholar at the University of Massachusetts. Following this, she spent the 1997-1998 season as assistant to Wynn Handman, Artistic Director of the American Place Theatre in New York City. Domrös was a resident dramturg at Theater Heidelberg from 2001 to 2005, where she curated the “Heidelberger Stückemarkt-Forum junger Autoren” (Heidelberg New Play Festival) in 2004 and 2005.