Adrian Figueroa works as a theater director and filmmaker. After completing his Master’s degree at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, his work as a theater director took him to the Deutsches Theater Berlin, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Old Vic Theatre London and the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, among others. In collaboration with the prison theatre project “Aufbruch”, he realizes theater projects in Berlin prisons. His award-winning film “Anderswo”, a portrait of prison inmates at Tegel Prison, premiered at the 2017 Hof International Film Festival and was awarded “Best Medium Length/Short Documentary” at the 2018 Achtung Berlin Film Festival. His production “Stress”, which is based on interviews with inmates at the Berlin Juvenile Detention Center, premiered at HAU. The production “Aurora”, based on interviews with drug users, their relatives and therapists, premiered at HAU in 2019 and was nominated for the Friedrich Luft Prize (Best Berlin Production).

His short film “Letters from Silivri” premiered at the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen in 2020 and won the “Connection Award” and “Student Prize” in Clermont Ferrand. In 2021, Figueroa was part of the Emerging Talents at the Berlinale (Berlinale Talents). His short film “PROLL!” won the German Competition at the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen in 2021, and in the same year the film was awarded the “Golden Lola” at the German Short Film Award. “PROLL!” was also shortlisted for the 95th Academy Awards in the category “Live Action Short Film” and won the German Cinematography Award. Figueroa has been a member of the German Film Academy since 2023. In the 2023/24 season, he directed the highly acclaimed world premiere of Wolfgang Herrndorf’s “Work and Structure” at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus.

Adrian Figueroa was a fellow of the Tarabya Cultural Academy from January to April 2019 and again with an extension in September and October 2021, and in May 2024.