Jacob Śuske, born in 1980 near Graz, studied jazz in Bern, Lucerne and New York. As a long-standing member of Lunik, he received gold and platinum discs, and undertook several Europe-wide tours with the bands Lunik and Bonaparte. Today, he is primarily on the road with his regular ensemble One Shot Orchestra, and he performs and releases experimental electronic music under his alter ego “Zachov”.

As a theatre composer, he has worked with directors such as Lucia Bihler, Jan-Christoph Gockel and Christopher Rüping, among others, at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Schauspiel Frankfurt, the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, as well as at the Burgtheater Vienna, the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, the Residenztheater Munich, the Thalia Theater Hamburg, the Staatstheater Hannover, the Schaubühne Berlin, the Staatstheater Stuttgart and the Theater Basel. Śuske regularly composes music for radio plays for German and Austrian radio and made his debut as a film composer in 2025 (Die Nacht ist dunkel und kälter als der Tag by Christina Friedrich), whilst also adding new interludes to Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the Staatstheater Saarbrücken, directed by Susanne Lietzow.

His own directing work has been presented, among others, by the directing duo Tuschy/Śuske at the Staatstheater Hannover, Theater Bonn, Theater Luzern, Schauspielhaus Wien and at the Theater Troubleyn in Antwerp. Śuske also runs the artist duo “Classic Cars Studio” together with Amandine Monsterlet and occasionally works as artistic project manager for the Bernese Baroque ensemble Die Freitagsakademie. From 2015 to 2018, Śuske was part of the artistic management team at the Schauspielhaus Wien as a dramaturg and musician. In Vienna, he has been curating the interdisciplinary Sägezahn Festival together with Samuel Schaab since 2016. In the same year, he was awarded a scholarship by the International Forum at the Berlin Theatertreffen.

With the Burgtheater production Die Eingebornen von Maria Blut, directed by Lucia Bihler, he appeared alongside Philipp Hauß at the Berliner Theatertreffen.

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