Pascal Thomas

© De-Da Productions

© De-Da Productions

Pascal Thomas was born in Alzenau, Lower Franconia. He completed his acting training in Frankfurt am Main in 2008. From 2008 to 2011, he was a permanent ensemble member at the Landestheater Eisenach and also performed at the Staatstheater Meiningen. There, he played roles such as the scribe Wilhelm in the Tom Waits musical The Black Rider, Valerio in Leonce and Lena, and Egmont in the play of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, adapted by Friedrich Schiller. He also served as an understudy for A‑Rab, Baby John, Action, and Diesel in the musical West Side Story.

In 2009, he appeared as a guest at the Staatstheater Darmstadt, where he worked for the first time with director Sarah Groß and with Michael Quast. Since then, he has performed regularly with BAROCK AM MAIN in Frankfurt, appearing alongside Michael Quast in nearly all productions of the Hessian Molière. In summer 2027, he will tour with the BAROCK AM MAIN ensemble in THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES, including performances at the Wetzlar Festival. In spring 2025, he played Baron Pück for three performances in Jacques Offenbach’s operetta Die Großherzogin von Gerolstein (The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein) at the Volksbühne im Großen Hirschgraben in Frankfurt (directed by Sarah Groß and Michael Quast).

He has been a permanent ensemble member at the Stadttheater Gießen since the 2011/12 season. His roles there have included the title role in Der kleine Prinz (The Little Prince) after Antoine de Saint‑Exupéry, Cliff Bradshaw in Cabaret (2011–2014) by John Kander and Fred Ebb, Clyde in Clyde und Bonnie by Holger Schober, Cassio in Othello by William Shakespeare, Reiting in Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (The Confusions of Törless) by Robert Musil, the Handsome Sigismund in Im Weißen Rössl (The White Horse Inn) by Ralph Benatzky, Theseus/Haemon in the double bill Ödipus auf Kolonos / Antigone (Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone) by Sophocles, Oscar Hubbart in Die kleinen Füchse (The Little Foxes) by Lillian Hellman, Harriet in Orlando after Virginia Woolf, Peter Keating in Capitalista, Baby! after Ayn Rand, Nick Carraway in Der große Gatsby (The Great Gatsby) by Rebekka Kricheldorf, Gregor Samsa in Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis) after Franz Kafka, Maik in Tschick by Wolfgang Herrndorf, various roles in Posthuman Journey by Pat To Yan, the Captain in Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck (with music by Tom Waits), Big Moon Joker in the world premiere of faulender Mond (Rotting Moon) by Anaïs Clerc, Luca in Vorstadtkrokodile (Suburban Crocodiles) after Max von der Grün, Kim/The Job in the world premiere of Generation Arbeit – Eine gottlos amtliche Komödie (Generation Work – A Blasphemously Official Comedy), Erik in Frau Yamamoto ist noch da (Mrs Yamamoto Is Still Here) by Dea Loher, Gus Brandt in Garland by Svenja Viola Bungarten, Päm in the family play T‑Rex, bist du traurig? (Steht dein T für Tränen?) (T‑Rex, Are You Sad? (Does Your T Stand for Tears?)) by Fayer Koch, Neighbor Jörg in Das Opferfest (The Sacrifice Festival) by Ibrahim Amir and the title roles in Michael Kohlhaas after Heinrich von Kleist and Judas by Lot Vekemans.

In summer 2019, he played Will Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love at the Clingenburg Festival, under the artistic and stage direction of Wolfgang Hofmann. In the summers of 2024 and 2025, he appeared at the Greifenstein Festival of the Erzgebirgisches Theater as Lancelot, the French Jester, the Knight‑Prince of Ni, and the wizard Tim in Monty Python’s SPALAMOT (German subtitle: Die Ritter der Kokosnuss) – THE MUSICAL.