Marius von Mayenburg was born in 1972 in Munich. In 1998 he began a collaboration with Thomas Ostermeier at Deutsches Theater in Berlin that continued, from 1999, at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin. He was awarded several prizes for his first play Fireface (1997). Since then he has written numerous plays, including The Ugly One, The Stone, Martyr and Plastic, which have been translated into over thirty languages and performed both in Germany and abroad. Since 2009 Mayenburg directs regularly at the Schaubühne in Berlin, as well as in other cities in Germany and across the world. His work as a translator also includes contemporary plays by Sarah Kane, Martin Crimp and Richard Dresser.