Felix Seiler is a director and revival director for both musical theatre and opera. He was born in Stuttgart and studied musical theatre direction at the Theaterakademie in Hamburg. He worked as an assistant director at Staatsoper Hannover before beginning at the Komische Oper in Berlin in 2011. His work at the Komische Oper included working with companies like the English National Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Edinburgh International Festival and Opera Australia in Sydney where Felix revived The Nose in 2018.

Since 2011, Felix has worked closely with Barrie Kosky, the artistic director of Komische Oper Berlin, assisting him on various productions, including his Ring Cycle at the Staatsoper in Hannover, as well as the Monteverdi Trilogy, Bernstein's West Side Story, Abraham's Ball im Savoy, and Rameau's Castor et Pollux, all at Komische Oper Berlin.

Between 2011 and 2013, he was a fellow of the Akademie Musiktheater Heute, which is sponsored by the Deutsche Bank Stiftung, and he was selected to participate as a finalist in the 2015 European Opera Directing Prize Competition in Madrid.

As a director, Felix has staged several projects at the Opera Stabile of the Staatsoper in Hamburg, as well as the Biennale for Contemporary Music in Munich and at Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Since 2017, Felix Seiler has worked as a director with productions for Staatstheater Braunschweig (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Anatevka), Theater Osnabrück (Alice in Wonderland, The Addams Family  and Comedian Harmonists), Komische Oper in Berlin (The Wizard of Oz) , Stadttheater Bremerhaven ( Die Herzogin von Chicago, The Count of Monte Cristo, Chicago), Theater für Niedersachsen Hildesheim (Death in Venice), Landestheater Coburg (Lend me a Tenor, Kiss me Kate), Staatstheater Cottbus (Die lustige Witwe), Theater Heidelberg (Im Weißen Rössl, Sunset Boulevard), Staatsoper Hannover (Die Zirkusprinzessin) and Theater Magdeburg (Catch me if you can).

The Season 2024/25 brought Felix back to Staatsoper Hannover (Chicago), Theater Osnabrück (Ball im Savoy), Komische Oper (Robinson Crusoe) and Domplatz Open Air in Magdeburg (The Addams Family), while also making his debut at Landestheater Flensburg (Dead Man Walking). 

In the season 2025/26, Felix has made his debut in Austria with three new productions, starting at Oper Graz with On the Town, continuing to Landestheater Linz with Wonderful Town and finishing the season with Tootsie at Bühne Baden. 

In autumn 2026, Felix will return to Deutsche Oper am Rhein with a new production of My Fair Lady featuring Karin Seyfried in the role of Professor Higgins. In spring 2027 he will make his debut at Theater Kiel, directing Händel's Alcina. 

Further details about his upcoming work can be found under AKTUELL.