Julia Reichert is a dramaturge and theater maker and has been co-director of Theater Neumarkt in Zurich since 2019. Born in Munich in 1983, she has worked at various municipal theaters in Germany and Switzerland since 2008, including the Münchner Kammerspiele and Theater und Orchester Heidelberg.

She teaches and mentors at the Akademie der Künste in Munich, the Zurich University of the Arts and the HKB Bern - and is now also a guest professor 24/25 at the HfG Karlsruhe. In her theater work, she is particularly interested in contemporary issues, theater as social art and the expansion and opening of institutional theater, performative learning and situational understanding.

From 2011 to 2013, she worked as a dramaturge at Theater Neumarkt (working with Barbara Weber, Rafael Sanchez, Milo Rau, etc.), then at Schauspielhaus Zürich (working with Réne Pollesch, Antu Romero Nunes, Theater Hora/Monstertruck, etc.) and at Theater Freiburg (working with Heike M. Goetze, Sylvia Sobottka, etc.). In 2016, she accepted Regula Schröter's invitation to help realign the drama department at Lucerne Theater as a dramaturge (working with Bruno Cathomas, Felix Rothenhäusler, Ivna Žic, among others).

In the 2017/18 season, she took over as interim director of the Lucerne Theater's drama department before becoming artistic director of Theater Neumarkt, a Swiss ensemble theater dedicated to artistic experimentation and institutional self-questioning, together with Hayat Erdogan and Tine Milz. Since then, she has worked in the position of co-director, dramaturge and artistic director of projects on the joint conception of an “unconditional theater” in the fields of “theater, academy, playground and digital”, as well as in numerous theatrical, discursive and immersive projects, including with Ivna Žic. including Ivna Žic, Lubna Abou Kheir, Daniela Ortiz, Theater Hora, Sylvia Sobottka, Anna Sophie Mahler, Sylke Gruhnwald, the SEADS Collective, the Center for Spatial Technologies / Forensic Architecture, Fynn Malte Schmidt, Max Hanisch and Piet Baumgartner. The production “EWS”, which she co-directed with Piet Baumgartner, was invited to the Swiss Theatertreffen, where it was named “Play of the Year”.