Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt (1982, DK) directs, performs, curates and writes in the field between cultural critique, philosophy and performance. In 2009 she finished her MA in Comparative Literature and Modern Culture in Copenhagen. In 2004 she studied at Theatre Science at FU Berlin. In 2007-08 she was a guest student at the department for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen.
Cecilie is working in the Danish, German and Swiss performance scene. She is collaborating with the collectives Monster Truck and deufert+plischke, the performer Ana Berkenhoff and the director Boris Nikitin. With Lucie Tuma she holds the artist duo named Chuck Morris, who performed a royal-blue audience ‘souvereines’ at the Freischwimmer Festival in Vienna, Zürich, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Berlin.
She is continously teaching at the Institute for Art and Cultural Studies in Copenhagen. Since autumn 2011 she is artistic research associate at the BA “Dance, Context, Choreography” at HZT Berlin.
