Nils Braun is a German stage and opera director with a special focus on world premieres. He works for theatres all over Europe with the aim to enlarge the current for opera, plays and musicals.  

From 2017 to 2019 he was a permanent assistant director at the Chemnitz Opera, where he worked on productions of Don Pasquale (2018) and White Rose (2018) as well as the musical solo Zarah 47. In 2019, the world premiere of Wiener Menage was made in Frankfurt at the LAB – in collaboration with the composer Carl Tertio Druml.Nils Braun is a scholarship holder of the Deutsche Bank Foundation's 'Music Theatre Today' academy and has been working as an assistant director at the Oldenburg State Theatre since summer 2019.

With the Forum Neue Kunst Oldenburg, productions of Russell Hepplewhite's Laika, the world premiere Der Telefonist oder de Mörder to Middernacht and the world premiere Der Fischer und seine Frau were created.

In the 20/21 season, his production of Mozart's Zaide in the version by Italo Calvino as well as a new production of the musical solo Zarah 47 with Melanie Lang as Zarah Leander are on the Staatstheater's programme. In addition, he works as director at the Mittelsächsisches Theater Freiberg-Döbeln, where he will stage Nora Abdel-Maksoud's Cafe Populaire in 2022, as well as the world premiere of Francois Lelord's Hector's Travels or the Search for Happiness in October 2023.  At the Oldenburg State Theatre, he is directing the world premiere of The Crash, an opera by Russell Hepplewhite, which he played a major role in conceiving.