JAN KRESS, *1980 in Offenbach, is an actor, dancer and performer. He has been living in Berlin since 2008. He gained notoriety in 2014 through the play bodieSLANGu-age by The Progressive Wave. At the theater festival Clin d'oeil in Reims/France, he was awarded the prize "Best International Actor" for the short film Jenseits von Worten by Oscar Lauterbach in 2015. At the Deutsches Gehörlosentheater, he appeared in Diener zweier Herren in 2016/18 and in Die Hauptsache in 2019. In 2019, together with Rita Mazza, Steve Stymest and Athina Lange, he will present FOUR. A visual musical in sign language at Sophiensælen Berlin, and in 2020 and 2021 he will be artist in residence there. In 2020 he founded the group fauXpas with Sophia Barthelmes and Wille F. Zante and led the workshop Flash den Mob for deaf and hearing youth at Parkaue Berlin. He is currently working at the RambaZamba Theater in the play Der Golem. Jan Kress works at FELD - Theater für junges Publikum on the inclusive design of the program and various projects.