Torsten Fischer (born 26 April 1958) is a German assistant director and theater intendant.
He frequently attended theatre rehearsals and was engaged in 1981 as assistant director and dramaturg for Günter Krämer and Hansgünter Heyme [de] at the Staatstheater Stuttgart under director Hans Peter Doll [de].
Further productions in Cologne were Die Räuber (1991), Kroetz’ Bauerntheater (1991), Hebbel's Maria Magdalena (1992), Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1993) and Jean Racine's Phèdre (1993).
Other productions there included Ferenc Molnár's Liliom (1996), the world premiere of Wilfried Happel's Mordslust (1996), the world premiere of Tankred Dorst's Die Geschichte der Pfeile [de] (1996) and Eugene O’Neills Long Day's Journey into Night (1998).
In 2013, Fischer was awarded the Austrian Music Theatre Prize [de] Golden Schikaneder named best director of the year 2012 for Gluck's Opera Telemacco, ossia L’isola di Circè at the Theater an der Wien.