Tjaša Črnigoj

Tjaša Črnigoj is a theatre director (AGRFT) and a philosopher and literary comparativist (UL Faculty of Arts). She is currently in training as a psychodrama psychotherapist (Slovenian Society for Psychodrama). As a theatre director and author she works both on the institutional and independent scene. In recent years, she has directed “Gilgalovanje” (Glej Theatre, 2018), “Satirikonijada” (Moment and AGRFT, 2018), “Smrčuljčica” (SNG Nova Gorica, 2018),” Plesni stroj BUM BAM” (Slovene Youth Theatre and Kino Šiška, 2019), “Bakice” (Savez udruga Molekula, Kolektiv Igralke, KUD Transformator, 2020), and the “WoW Awards” (City of Women, 2021). “Gilgalovanje” was included in the competition programme of the Borštnikovo srečanje festival, “Bakice” was performed at the Young Lions and were invited to  Theatertreffen’s Stückemarkt festival in Berlin. In recent years, she has also worked as a dramaturg and as an assistant director and dramaturg or co-dramaturg with director Tomi Janežič (“Seven Questions about Happiness”, LGL 2020; Beyond Human Power, National Theatre Oslo, 2021). She was in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris as a laureate of the French Institute, for which she also received a scholarship from the Jernej Šugman Fund, and where she completed her residency project, the transdisciplinary laboratory “Through The Eyes Of The Others”. She uses a creative approach known as devised theatre, lately she has been focusing particularly on documentary theatre.