Jan Philipp Stange is a director, curator and author. He studied literature, philosophy, directing and theater studies in Hamburg, Frankfurt and Tel Aviv and creates performances for theaters throughout Germany and Europe, e.g. at Mousonturm Frankfurt, Thalia Theater Hamburg, Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, Schauspielhaus Wien, Schauspielhaus Hamburg and Deutsches Theater Göttingen. His productions were invited to several festivals like the Ruhrtriennale, to the Impulse Festival, to the Radikal Jung Festival, to the Outnow! Festival, to the Fast Forward Festival for European young directors.

Since 2019 he is the managing director of the Frankfurt theater studioNAXOS. He teaches at Goethe University Frankfurt and Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. For NODE20 he supports the NODE team with the realisation of the GreenHouse Naxos.