Before joining HOME in 2014, Walter Meierjohann was International Associate Director at the Young Vic in London. There, his productions included the European premiere of In the Red and Brown Water by Tarell McCraney, and Kafka’s Monkey, which toured to Sydney, Melbourne, Athens, Paris, Tokyo and New York. The production, which starred Kathryn Hunter, also shows in HOME’s 2015 opening season, with Hunter reprising her lead role.
Walter has worked extensively in Germany and the UK at theatres including The Young Vic; The Barbican; Liverpool Playhouse; Nottingham Playhouse; The Curve, Leicester; Residenztheater, Munich; Staatsschauspiel, Dresden; Schauspiel, Graz; and Arena, Berlin, for Peter Stein’s Faust Ensemble and Impulse Theatre Festival.
In opera, he has assisted the late Klaus-Michael Grueber in his productions of Aida (Nederlands Opera, Amsterdam) and Don Giovanni (Ruhrfestspiele).