Kai Tuchmann graduated in directing from Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch in Berlin. He works as a dramaturge, director, and academic. He is a visiting professor at The Central Academy of Drama in Beijing - for which he has developed, together with Li Yinan, the curriculum for the first dramaturgy program in Asia. He is also a member of the Theatre Management Faculty at Frankfurt`s University for Music and Performing Arts. He has held fellowships at The Graduate Center, CUNY (Fulbright), the Academy for Theatre and Digitality, Germany, and the Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research at Harvard University.