Rebekka Bangerter studied theatre directing at the Zurich University of the Arts, performance, object theatre and new media at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes de Buenos Aires, and previously German studies and history in Basel.

Before and alongside her studies, she spent several years working as an intern and assistant in the independent theatre scene in Bern and at Theater Basel. In 2017, she was invited to the Körber Festival for Young Directors with her graduation production, "Woyzeck - Ah, how beautiful the world is!". In 2019, she won third place in the PREMIO Switzerland young talent competition with "The Day Before I Fell from the Horse." A sequel to this production, "Mnesia - A Memorial with a Beginning and an End," was created in co-production with Gessnerallee Zurich. Since graduating in 2018, she has worked as a freelance director at the Stadttheater and in the independent theatre scene, as a performer, dramaturge, and in teaching. From August 2021, she continued her studies and artistic research at the DAS Arts Master's Programme for Contemporary Theatre in Amsterdam, which she successfully completed in 2023.
Her works particularly address the question of how mediatization influences our perception and reality. They are characterized by an aesthetic of absence, which is an attempt to create a counterpoint to a society of spectacle, of a constant state of too much. This results in participatory, installation-based theater events in which space, text, sound and performance, form and content, condition and question each other, often engaging the audience in unusual ways. Inspired by the concept of Realismo Magico, she enjoys interweaving different levels of reality such as mythology, science, history, and personal reality.