She studied communication and media management at Stuttgart Media University and received a grant to attend Interspherial Pictures Stuttgart’s screenwriting school. Since 2007, she has directed numerous plays and performance pieces at state and municipal theatres, as well as for the independent arts scene nationwide. In 2017, one of her productions received 1st Place at the contest nachtkritik-Theatertreffen.

Between 2015 and 2018, she was the artistic and managing director of the Prinz-Regent-Theater in Bochum, where she produced several new pieces while also devoting herself to new forms of local audience development and ways of anchoring the institution in the urban space and its citizens. In the season of 2015, she founded the International Ensemble Grubengold as well as two other youth ensembles for emerging artists, aspiring actors, directors, and costume and set designers. She also engaged in the launching of the Kreativ.Quartier Prinz.Regent and an artist’s residency program called Floating Rooms, to promote professional perspectives for local artists. In 2018, she hosted the Junge Ensemble Netzwerk with the Conference of Theatre Students in Bochum. With the projects and cooperation programs carried out under her direction, she contributed to developing a place for artistic and social encounters bringing together audiences and ensembles increasingly diverse in age, social, and political backgrounds.

She is currently working on an exhibition on the subject of reeducation concerning special children's residential homes of the GDR for cultural mediation and culture of remembrance in Berlin, as well as on a new dance production on non-European dance and media art in NRW. Romy Schmidt lives, works, and commutes between NRW, East Saxony, and Berlin.

She studied communication and media management at Stuttgart Media University and received a grant to attend Interspherial Pictures Stuttgart’s screenwriting school. Since 2007, she has directed numerous plays and performance pieces at state and municipal theatres, as well as for the independent arts scene nationwide. In 2017, one of her productions received 1st Place at the contest nachtkritik-Theatertreffen.

Between 2015 and 2018, she was the artistic and managing director of the Prinz-Regent-Theater in Bochum, where she produced several new pieces while also devoting herself to new forms of local audience development and ways of anchoring the institution in the urban space and its citizens. In the season of 2015, she founded the International Ensemble Grubengold as well as two other youth ensembles for emerging artists, aspiring actors, directors, and costume and set designers. She also engaged in the launching of the Kreativ.Quartier Prinz.Regent and an artist’s residency program called Floating Rooms, to promote professional perspectives for local artists. In 2018, she hosted the Junge Ensemble Netzwerk with the Conference of Theatre Students in Bochum. With the projects and cooperation programs carried out under her direction, she contributed to developing a place for artistic and social encounters bringing together audiences and ensembles increasingly diverse in age, social, and political backgrounds.

She is currently working on an exhibition on the subject of reeducation concerning special children's residential homes of the GDR for cultural mediation and culture of remembrance in Berlin, as well as on a new dance production on non-European dance and media art in NRW. Romy Schmidt lives, works, and commutes between NRW, East Saxony, and Berlin.