Fabian Joest Passamonte was born and raised in Frankfurt am Main. After graduating from high school, he trained as an actor in Barcelona and studied theater and film at New York University and the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, HB Studio. Theater engagements and off-projects followed in Barcelona, Berlin and Hamburg, among others. In the field of film and television he worked with filmmakers Züli Aladağ, Friederike Jehn, Miriam Dehne, Alejandro Ripoll and Mike Figgis. Since 2009 Fabian Joest Passamonte has been working and rehearsing at Actors Space in Berlin-Kreuzberg under the artistic direction of Mike Bernardin and has been developing his first screenplay at the Autorenwerkstatt Babelsberg since 2011.