Atif Mohammed Nor Hussein is a director and scenographer. In 1996 he graduated from the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin. After engagements at Maxim-Gorki Theater, Volksbühne Berlin, Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam and others he went on to do stage design and later on direct numerous productions at the opera in Halle, Bayrisches Staatstheater and others. Between 2001 and 2009 he was production manager, head of stage design and artistic director at Puppentheater Halle, Neues Theater Halle. He received the awards Max-Reinhardt-Preis and Friedrich-Luft-Preis and was invited to various national and international festivals in Erlangen, Munich, Erfurt, Marburg, Edinburgh, Paris, the children’s and youth theatre festival “augenblick mal” and the Heidelberger Stückemarkt 2017. At the Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Atif worked on the theater production Im Strom (2022) and directed Mais in Deutschland und anderen Galaxien (2015), Walking Large (2017), and Courageux! Furchtlos! (2021).