Stefanie Sourial
Stefanie Sourial, born 1981, works as a performance artist in Vienna and teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna at the department for performative art. She graduated from Jacques Lecoq – International Theatre School in Paris in 2007. Before and during her education she worked as street sweeper, production assistant and performance coach at performance festivals all over the world.In 2001/2002 Stefanie led
theatre workshops with homeless teenagers in Cairo, Egypt.
Sourial creates her own solo projects, i.a. FREAK (2014/15), touring Austria, Germany and Switzerland, as part of Freischwimmer Festival 2014 and released the music album Amsterdam for which she won the “Blue Bird” Singer Songwriter Award 2014. From 2009–2014 Sourial participated as a performance artist in Katrina Daschner’s queer-feminist performance project Club Burlesque Brutal. Since 2012 she has been working with the multi-award-winning company “Theater Ad Infinitum” as a co-creator and performer in the UK. Since 2017 Stefanie is part of PCCC* –Vienna’s first Queer Comedy Club where she regularly performs antiracist and queer stand-up comedy skids. In 2019 Stefanie Sourial published her performance trilogy Colonial Cocktail within coproduction with brut Vienna. Her performances follow socio-critical, political and historical content, all of which she negotiates on a personal level.
Works at brut:
- NEW ENDINGS (2023, with Faris Cuchi Gezahegn, Hyo Lee, Patu, Janine Jembere, Sunanda Mesquita)
- SODOM VIENNA REVUE (2023, with Denice Bourbon, Gin Müller, Veza Fernández, Hyo Lee, Denise Palmieri, Alex Franz Zehetbauer, Elise Yuki Mory)
- Colonial Cocktail – Volume 2: Spirits (2022, Resumption)
- City of Diaspora (2022)
- Handle with care mit Stefanie Sourial. City of Diaspora (2021)
- Sodom Vienna (2021, with Denice Bourbon, Gin Müller, Veza Fernández, Hyo Lee, Denise Palmieri, Alex Franz Zehetbauer)
- Colonial Cocktail – Volume 3: Digestivo (2019)
- Colonial Cocktail – Volume 2: Spirits (2019)
- Colonial Cocktail – Volume 1: Aperitivo (2019)
- The Village (2018)
- FREAK (2015)
