Swen Steinhauser studied Theatre at Dartington College of Arts (99-2002). There, together with five fellow students, he founded the performance company Deer Park. Deer Park’s first performance see you swoon won the Best Devised Piece award at the NSDF 2002, was invited to the National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, as well as Junge Hunde Festival, Antwerpen, and toured widely in the UK. The company continued to produce the touring studio production years, years, 2004, and the context specific performance walk through the forests of Grizedale and Leigh Woods The Forest Project, 2005.
In 2006 Swen collaborated on the site specific performance Taking Ground, an interactive performance event in Bristol’s Floating Harbour and devised and directed two performance projects with children and young non-performers, Now Gravel is under my feet, now grass (ICIA Bath) and Unless Supernatural Grace Intervenes (Dukes Youth Theatre and Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster).
Swen is currently based in Manchester, UK. Over the last three years he has been working as a part time lecturer and visiting artist at MMU Cheshire, Leeds Metropolitan University, University of Leeds and University of Salford. As part of this work he has produced two significant large cast student productions (Surveillance, 2007 and Splendour/Pleasure, 2008), as well as a variety of smaller scale projects with students on BA and MA level.
In 2008 Swen began work under the name of hauser on his most current touring studio production I made you a submarine.