Born in Tokyo, Hiroko Tanahashi graduated from Tisch School of the Arts‘ Film and Television Program at New York University and received a MFA in Multi Media Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design. In 2002, she relocated to Berlin, where she has worked ever since as the artistic co-director of Post Theater. Hiroko Tanahashi was invited to residencies all over the world, including Iceland (2009), Japan (2009) and Germany (Künstlerhaus Lukas, 2006; PACT Zollverein Essen, 2006) and received the Stuttgart Theater Prize in 2015 for her media performance Jobs in Heaven and in 2017 for House of Hope. In most of Hiroko’s works, the focus is on installing video projections in spatially innovative and dramaturgically thoughtful ways.

Her latest immersive theater piece, Trojan Horse, premiered at TD Berlin in December 2024 and was later shown at Waschhaus Potsdam and PATHOS Munich. At Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Hiroko is involved as a video designer in the Extended Cooperation Vol. I workshop.