Jorinde Dröse was born in 1976 in Hanau, studied dramaturgy at the Munich Theatre Academy and trained from 1998 to 2003 at the Institute for Theatre Direction in Hamburg, also working as an assistant director under Andreas Kriegenburg and Sebastian Nübling. Since 2003, Jorinde Dröse has been employed continuously as a director, mainly at the Thalia Theater Hamburg, but also at the Munich Volkstheater, the Schauspielhaus Bochum, the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, the Staatstheater Wiesbaden and the Schauspiel Frankfurt.