Dirk Weiler

Dirk Weiler studied acting, singing, and dance at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, as well as singing at the Manhattan School of Music, City College, and Brooklyn College in New York, where he earned a Master of Music degree. He also received acting training at the New York studio “Expressions.” For ten years, he worked as an actor and singer in New York, where he was a prize winner at the “Lotte Lenya Competition” and the “New York Nightlife Award,” among other honors.
Equally at home in both musical theater and spoken theatre, he has performed at many major theaters since his return to Germany, including as Herod in “Jesus Christ Superstar” (Lloyd Webber), Albin/Zaza in “La Cage aux Folles” (Herman), Horace Vandergelder in “Hello, Dolly!” (Herman), Bobby Child in “Crazy For You” (Gershwin), Roger De Bris in “The Producers” (Brooks), Buddy Plummer in “Follies” (Sondheim), Max von Mayerling in “Sunset Boulevard” (Lloyd Webber), Captain E.J. Smith in “Titanic” (Yeston), Frank Senior in “Catch Me If You Can” (Shaiman), Anatoly Sergievsky in “Chess” (Andersson/Ulvaeus), Edna Turnblad in “Hairspray” (Shaiman), and the Emcee in “Cabaret” (Kander).
On stage, he appeared in, among other works, “Every Brilliant Thing” (Macmillan), as well as in the role of Alfred Ill in Dürrenmatt’s “The Visit,” Death in “Jedermann” (by Hoffmannsthal), Lord Burleigh in Schiller’s “Maria Stuart,” Trofimov in Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard,” the Magic King in Horváth’s “Tales from the Vienna Woods,” and the Fool in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.” In addition to his stage career, he taught acting, art song interpretation, and tap dance for many years at various universities in Germany and the U.S., and, as an experienced tap dancer, also choreographed his own works.
At the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Dirk Weiler has been hosting Wittenbrink’s “Comedian Harmonists - Best of” since the 2020–21 season and appears as Colonel Pickering in “My Fair Lady” (Lerner/Loewe).