Barbara Weber is a freelance director, project manager and curator. She studied directing at the Institute for Theater, Music Theater and Film in Hamburg. Her unplugged format, in which she reinterpreted blockbusters and modern myths such as Michael Jackson, Mother Teresa and the RAF, was a great success in German-speaking countries. Hollywood unplugged and RAF unplugged were invited to Theater Impulse. RAF unplugged won the prize of the Fonds für Darstellende Künste Berlin. She has worked at HAU in Berlin, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, Schauspiel Essen, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, Münchner Kammerspiele and Wiener Festwochen, among others. From 2008 to 2013, she was co-director of the Theater Neumarkt in Zurich.
She has been working as a freelance curator/director/producer since 2013. Barbara Weber conceives, realizes and stages projects in the fields of theater, art, science, digital media, politics, migration and cultural participation, including for the Theaterspektakel Zürich, City of Zurich, Canton of Zurich, Stapferhaus Lenzburg, Kunsthalle Zürich, Stattkino, Manifesta11, ETHZ, NGOs, cultural formats in the asylum system, Kaserne Basel.