Gina
Haller Actress

Gina Haller was born in Basel in 1987. She studied acting from 2009 to 2011 in Paris at the Cours Florent in the Classe libre Promotion XXX and from 2012 to 2015 at the Bern University of the Arts. She then performed in Basel and Thionville and was engaged at Theater Trier from 2015 to 2017. Further permanent engagements followed at Theater Bremen in the 2017/18 season and at Schauspielhaus Bochum from 2018 to 2024. She has worked with directors including Johan Simons, Sebastian Nübling, Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson, Roger Vontobel, Alice Buddeberg, Alize Zandwijk and Manuela Infante. In addition, she regularly produces her own theatre works, most recently the performance ‹Jeder Tag ein Vollmond›, a collaboration with the author Katja Brunner, as well as research on identity, which led her to the Herzliya Residency in Tel Aviv. Gina Haller was nominated for the Prix Olga Horstig in Paris in 2011, honoured with the Study Prize in 2013 and 2014, the Migros Culture Percentage Award in 2014 and a scholarship from the Friedl Wald Foundation in 2014. She was named up-and-coming actress of the year 2020 by the critics' survey of the trade journal Theater heute. In 2021, she was the winner of the Berlin Art Prize in the Performing Arts section. In 2022, she was awarded the Bochum Theatre Prize and the Baselland Culture Prize. She is currently playing Emma in ‹Die Krume Brot› at Theater Basel.