Ekat Cordes has been working as a freelance director, author, musician and sound designer since 2010.
At Oldenburgisches Staatstheater under the directorship of Markus Müller, he worked as an assistant director on independent projects as an author and director between 2006 and 2010, collaborating with Susanne Kennedy, Anna Bergmann, Albrecht Hirche and Marc Becker, among others.
After Ekat Cordes' play »Ewig gärt» was invited to the Stückemarkt of the Berliner Theatertreffen 2010, he staged the dramatic live comic »A Greekship« together with the author Philipp Löhle and the comic artist Henrik Schart at Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin at the Reality kills festival.
In 2011, Ekat Cordes was named up-and-coming director of the year in the trade journal Theater heute for his production of »Der Penner ist schon wieder woanders« (Juri Sturnberg) at Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin.
His play »Aproposkalypse« premiered at Theater Osnabrück in 2012 and his farce »Gertrud goes Korea« was nominated for the Leonhard Frank Prize at Mainfranken Theater Würzburg and for the Autorentheatertage Stück auf! at Schauspiel Essen in 2013.
Ekat Cordes has worked at the Maxim Gorki Theater, Schauspiel Essen, Stadttheater Pforzheim, Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Theater und Orchester Heidelberg, Hans Otto Theater, Junges Theater Heidelberg, Theater Erlangen, Staatstheater Mainz, Theater an der Parkaue, Theater Ulm, Junges Theater Münster, Theater Konstanz, Rheinisches Landestheater Neuss, Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern, Junges Theater Regensburg, Stadttheater Ingolstadt and Ohnsoorg Theater in Hamburg.