Rimma Elbert aka Polly Blue
Artistic Director
Currently living in Berlin/Germany
Born: 05.11.1990 in Ukraine/Lugansk
Jewish* and Queer

• Artistic Direction
  – 2020 Queer B-Cademy Kampnagel Hamburg: Dinning Room By Documentary Filmmaker Ifeatu Nnaobi
  – 2020 Social Media for Keshet_de, KESHET GERMANY Berlin
  – 2019 Meininger Staatstheater: Wir sind Keine Barbaren! (Directior: Annett Kruschke)
  – 2019 Hellerau Dresden: Dance Piece by Yamile Navarro Whispering Widows
  – 2018 Staatsschauspiel Dresden: Così Fan Tutte (Director: Barbara Beyer)
  – 2017 Hellerau Dresden: Dance Piece by Yamile Navarro What If…?
  – 2014 Set Designer, The Black Fish Project, a Ph.D Project by Aysenur  Karabulut with Kids from the Bilingual School in Brighton
• Assistance
  – 05/2015 Costume and Set Design Assistant for the piece Replacement Place at Patricia Noworol Dance Theatre (New York Live Arts Center) Designer: Vita Tzykun
  – 04/2015 Costume Design Assistant for the play Kristina, The August Strindberg Company (Gene Frankel Theatre New York)
• Internships
  – 2016-2016 Set Design Intern @Konzerttheater Bern
  – 2015 Costume Design Intern at the Filmproduction “The Drowning”, directed by Bette Gordon, New York Costumedesigner: Stacey Berman
  – 2014-2015 CHANCE Magazine New York
  – 2014- Fabrica Gallery Brighton
  – 2013 Jewish Museum Vienna
• Other Theatre-based Work
  – 2016-2019 Costume dresser @Semperoper Dresden
  – 2015 Theatreproject for elementary school kids at 117. Grundschule Ludwig Reichenbach in Dresden, presented at Gallery Hole of Fame in Dresden
  – 2008 Keto-Enol-Tautomerie a performance piece for UNART Performancefestival, in Hamburg (Thalia in der Gausstraße), Berlin (Maxim-Gorki-Theater) and Frankfurt am Main (Schauspiel Frankfurt)
  – 2007-2010 Drama Teacher at Osterbek Gymnasium Hamburg
  – 2007-2008 Light and Sound at the Theater in der Washingtonallee Hamburg

• Other Art Work
  – 2017 19. Internationale Schillertage Mannheim, Scholarship
  – 2017 Künstlerstadt Kalbe, Filminstallation: “Be Kind”
  – 2016 Curator for weekly filmscreenings @HfBK Dresden
  – 2015 Group Exhibition Lenin. Rethinking the Image., FilmFestival   Cottbus
  – 2015 Group Exhibition Art Van Demon at Delphi Filmtheatre Berlin
  – 2014 Curator for 344 Queen’s Park Road House Exhibition, Brighton
  – 2012 Im Dialog… mockumentary film shown at Schikaneder Vienna,      fundet by Cash for Culture
  – 2009 L.S.D. Lesbian Speed Dating, shortfil for Goldene Wandse, at     Cinemaxx Wandsbek Hamburg
  

• Education
  10/2014-07/2019 Set and Costumedesign at the University of Fine Arts Dresden
  09/2013-06/2014 Exchange Year at the University of Sussex Brighton
  2010-2014 German Philology at the University of Vienna
  2003-2010 Osterbek Gymnasium Hamburg
  2001-2003 Dietrich Bonhoeffer Gymnasium Eppelheim
  1997-2001 Eduard-Orth Elementary School Germersheim