Dagmar Windisch outside eye on theatre arts

Dagmar Windisch is a creative producer with 15 years of experience in the fields of creative development, production, organization and general management of musical productions and other stage events. Between 1998 and 2004, she established the in-house productions and license acquisition departments for the international entertainment agency BB Promotion based in Mannheim. She continued working for the company as well as for other promoting companies: as a producer, as a creative consultant and in strategic and production analysis continously securing new projects. The creative development of musical productions and the initiation, negotiation and structural development of international co-productions in the field of commercial theater are her areas of expertise. For this purpose, she established a broad network for her circle of clients.

Dagmar Windisch is a translator of the authors Keith Huff, Zech Helm, Gina Gionfriddo, Theresa Rebeck, Glen Berger, David Lindsay-Abaire, Brook Berman, Kathleen Clarke and Piers Chater Robinson.

She is currently engaged in the transfer of a series of promising stage plays and is in charge of the realisation of We Will Rock You in France, Switzerland, Austria and Germany. As well as on Peter Maffay's Tabaluga Show 2012 tour-production. She has been active in theatre-tour production since 1994. Since 1998, she has been artistically responsible for the adaptation and production of 21 long-running European and international productions: in 2009 the musical Hairspray premiered in Cologne. New tours of the Rocky Horror Show and of the West Side Story are planned.

Her professional focus at the theatre is directed towards the promotion of performers and authors. For Dagmar Windisch discovering foreign-language authors and their individual language as well as the artistic development of creative teams and young stage talents belong to the most exciting challenges of her profession.

2011		We Will Rock You, Norway
2010		We Will Rock You, Sweden, the Netherlands, WWRY Berlin
2009		Hairspray, Cologne, West Side Story World tour
2008		Rocky Horror Show, West Side Story London and Europe tour, WSS UK tour WWRY Vienna and Stuttgart
2007		WSS Paris and tour, Hairspray St. Gallen
2006		WWRY Zurich
2005 - 06		WSS Macau and South East Asia tour
2004		WWRY Musical Dome Cologne
2003		West Side Story Germany tour

Dagmar Windisch was born in Vienna.

1983 – 89		study of Theatre Studies, University of Vienna
1984 – 92		opera and musical productions with Jerome Savary at the Bregenzer Festspiele, the Volksoper and the Burgtheater, Vienna theatre, TV and film productions: „Berlin Affaire“ and „The Vast Domain“, „The Strauss dynasty“, „One hundred objects to present the world“, “Kaisermühlenblues“, “Mesmer”; cooperation with Liliana Cavani, Luc Bondy, Marvin Chomsky, Peter Greenaway and Reinhard Schwabenitzky.
1993 – 96		Ronacher Vienna, producer for entertainment shows by Shirley McLaine, André Heller and Woody Allen. „Specialities“ (Werner Herzog), „Clowns“ (Bernhard Paul), „Once Again, Director!“ (Michael Heltau), „Hava Nagila“ (Ivana DeVert) and Theatre Cirque Archaos. She scouted STOMP and Momix for the Wiener Festwochen. Supervision and processing of 50 guest-performance productions.
1996 – 1998		project direction and production for YUME by André Heller in Japan as well as co-management for André Hellers circus „Begnadete Körper“.
1998-2002		production of „Beauty and the Beast“ for BB Promotion Supervising producer for Saturday Night Fever, casting director Germany for the European production of „Fosse“. Supervising producer of STORM at the Barbican Theatre, London. DVD-production of the play “Carmen Flamenco”.