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EDUCATION
2019-2022, MA in Live Art and Performance Studies (LAPS), Theatre Academy of Uniarts Helsinki
2007-2009, MA studies in Theater and Drama Critique University of Istanbul, Faculty of Literature.
2002-2005, BA in Drama and Screenwriting Department of Dramaturgy University of Pristina, Faculty of Arts Prishtina, Kosova.
LANGUAGE SKILLSET
Native in Albanian, fluent in English, Turkish, Serbian, good in German, French, fair in Russian, Finnish, Spanish.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS, SHOWCASES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
2025. Coop Gallery, Ten in Tenn performance exhibition- Selected artist.
2025. Vanderbilt University, Department of Arts- Lecturer in Performance Art.
2024- ongoing. Money-faktura, weekly curated sound shows at Kolektiv – Radio Co-host.
2024. Coop Gallery, Writerโs Gym, โPerformativity of Textโ- Workshop leader.
2024. Kindling Arts Festival, Staged Reading of โWhat Sprouts First When the Earth Burns?โ- Author.
2024. Defy Film Festival, short experimental film competition with the experimental video โThe Folding of Yugasโ- Screenwriter and Co-director (with Dylan R. Simon).
2024. Repeater Room Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, โThe Folding of Yugasโ, screening, curated by Kelli Hix- Screenwriter and Co-director (with Dylan R. Simon).
2023. Belcourt Cinema, Nashville, TN, โBig Sisterโ, A video installation- Performer.
2023. [of sound] sonic arts exhibition, Helsinki, Finland, โLonging from a distance…what is left behind?โ- Author of participatory one-on- one performance.
2023. Helsinki City Theater Stage for Contemporary Performance, Helsinki, Finland, โWhat is seen and what’s (left) behind the scene?โ- Artistic researcher and author.
2022. Cultural Heritage Without Borders (CHWB) funded, โSacking and Weavingโ, Prizren, Kosova; a participatory site-specific performance- Artistic Researcher, Author and Performer.
2022. Fair Sculpture, Uniarts, Helsinki, Finland, โInclusivity Workshopโ with Kontula Arts School youth- Workshop leader.
2020- 2022. Kenno Filmi, Helsinki, Finland, โWe Bites Usโ, by Karolina Kucia- Script advisor and performer.
2020-2022. Lumbardhi Foundation, Prizren, Kosova- Associate Director for Communications and Programming.
2021. Artsi Museum Vantaa, Finland, โThe posture of Impermanenceโ, Youth Workshop on Familiarity- Workshop Leader.
2021. Metamorphosis IV, Fondacioni 17, Prishtina, โParallel Voicesโ, a site-specific artistic intervention curated by Maksut Vezgishi- Co-scriptwriter.
2021. Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki, Finland, โUnusual Companionshipsโ Performance Lab- Co-curator.
2021. Myymรคlรค2, Relational Art Week (RAW), Helsinki, Finland, โBuilding A Passport Exhibitionโ- Performance author and performer.
2021. Free Space for Arts, Helsinki, โAn Exercise with Modified Circumstancesโ- Artistic researcher, performance author, performer.
2021.โ Intimate Archives of Spaceโ, Prishtina, Kosova, Curated by Blerta Hoรงia- Participant artist.
2020. LAPSODY – Paramatter Festival, Kuninkansaari, Finland
โThings Other People Doโ (by Dylan Simon) & Double by Jesse Weilburg aka Images in Silence from Nashville, TN – Co-curator, performer.
2020. European Theatre Collective, โThe Sludge Puddle Rainbowโ- Podcast author.
2009-2019. American Councils for International Education, Prishtina, Kosova Youth Exchange and Study (YES) High School Exchange – Program Manager. 2018- 2019. INTENT New Theatre, Prishtina, Kosova- Hub Coordinator.
2018. Tamasha Theater, London, โThe Fifth Dimensionโ- Cultural Consultant.
2017-2020. Lumbardhi Foundation, Prizren, Kosova- Secretary of Board.
2018. Loyola Gymnasium, Petrovรซ, Kosova. Production of โVeilโ, a devised performance with underrepresented youth – Author, artistic director, theater trainer.
2018. โShkrepรซtimaโ, a specific performance by Petrit Halilaj, Runik, Kosova- Dramaturg.
2017. Loyola Gymnasium, Petrovรซ, Kosova. Production of โThe un-stepped Forest of the Island of TamTumโ, a devised performance with underrepresented youth – Author & artistic director.
2017. VorAlpen Teater,โ Schatzi, a je mirรซ?โ/โ Sweetheart, are you ok?โ, Lucerne, Switzerland. Co- author of devised youth performance.
2017. โHibernationโ, Prishtina, Kosova, UK, London- Playwright supported by INTENT New Theater. The play was stage-read at the Unicorn Theater in London.
2016- 2019. The Theater Times, New York, U.S.A. – Regional Managing Director for Kosova.
2016. Urban FM, Prishtina, Kosova, โMoral Lessonsโ- Author of radio-play produced by Urban FM.
2016. Mixed Pickles Art Collective in Berlin, Germany, Waldstock music festival, โNot When I Just Met Williamโ- Podcast author.
2015- 2016. National Theater of Kosova, Prishtina, Kosova, โรka mbinรซ sโpari kur kallet bota?โ/ โWhat Sprouts First When the Earth Burns?โ- Author of the commissioned play written during an organic theater workshop for the 2016 repertoire of the National Theater of Kosova.
2015. Transformational Leadership Training, Tirana, Albania, Theater workshop โ Youth trainer.
2015. Loyola Gymnasium, Petrovรซ, Kosova. Production of โFรซmijรซt kozmikรซ nuk janรซ komikรซโ/โ Cosmic kids are not funnyโ, a devised youth performance- Author, artistic director, theater trainer. 2015. Kosovo Cinematography Center, Prishtina, Kosova, Feature Film Competition -Jury Director.
2014. Skena UP International Theater and Film Festival, Prishtina, Kosova – Jury member.
2013-2014. MERULA, Theater on Stiltz, Prizren, Kosova- Playwright and youth trainer. Author of โSearching for Fantomia (and the Desolate Mamumian)โ a devised performance with underrepresented youth.
2013. โInternally Displacedโ, Prishtina, Kosova- Performer in a devised performance directed by Elizabeth Hess, based on the Kosova war rape survivors’ reports.
2012-2013. Academy of Arts, Drama Department, University of Prishtina- Assistant in the classes of Theater Critics and Aesthetics for the Fulbright professor from Sam Houston State University, Ph.D. David A. McTier.
2012. National Theater of Kosova, Prishtina, Kosova, โPeople with broken hopesโ (by Shaip Grabovci)- Assistant Director.
2007-2010. Dokufest, International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Prizren, Kosova- Public Relations Director.
BOOK TRANSLATIONS
2023. โBringing Closer to the Peopleโ edited by Sezgin Boynik, Lumbardhi Foundation, language editor, translator from English to Albanian.
2023. โLumbardhi, an Episodic Historyโ by Bengi Muzbeg & Tevfik Rada, Lumbardhi Foundation, SAA.
2022. โColoring Lumbardhiโ by Rina Krasniqi, Lumbardhi Foundation, SAA.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2024. โSix Youth Playsโ, a book of six devised plays developed with underrepresented youth in Kosova. The publication is funded by The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of Kosova.
2023-ongoing. Nashville based Music City Review, Critic for Theater and Performance Events.
2022. “Transmissions from the Island of the King”, Trance//Furnace, Nashville, TN, zine writer.
2021. “The (un)disputed portrait of the middle-class”, No Niin, Helsinki, Finland, exhibition critic.
2021.”What Sprouts First When the Earth Burns?”, Thessalonรญki, Greece. Theatre play published by Balkan Literary Magazine, 46th summer edition.
2020. “J’adore Tomislav Markovic”, Voima, Helsinki, Finland. Published poem.
2020. “No season: A chance to promote non-elitism in performance art and decentralize the stage” Prishtina Insight, Prishtina, Kosova. Published op-ed.
2020. “The Sludge Puddle Rainbow”, Prishtina Insight, Prishtina, Kosova, Published op-ed. Exploring the relationship between the pandemic, evolution, digital authoritarianism, and privilege.
2020. “An Automatic Decision to Learn How to Flip”, Prishtina Insight, Prishtina, Kosova, op-ed. Kosova, an adolescent struggling with a past scared to confront, while others control her every move.
2019. “The Artistic Genius as a Villain”, Prishtina Insight, Prishtina, Kosova.
An Op-ed on Peter Handke and Nobel Priceโs Eurocentrism.
2018. “The Use of Children in Milo Rau’s ‘Five Easy Pieces’: Exploitation or Confrontational Theatre?” A review of Swiss theater maker Milo Rau’s theatre production ‘Five Easy Pieces’.
2018. Lirindja #5 Literary Magazine, published two original poems.
MEMBERSHIPS
2024-2026. Board of Directors Member at Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed, Inc (PTO).
2024-ongoing. Art Friends Collective, Nashville, TN. Co-founder of the collective with Chelsea Hall.
2020-ongoing. Trance//Furnace, Nashville, TN. Member of the collective.
WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES/RESIDENCIES/ GRANTS
2024. Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed Conference, St.Petersburg, Florida- Participant.
2022. Cultural Heritage without Borders – Heritage Space Grant Recipient.
2022. The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike)- Covid Grant Recipient.
2022. Performance Philosophy Conference, Theater Academy, Helsinki, Finland-Co-author and presenter of “Perspectivist Performance – A Gesture of Backward Gaze”.
2022. Women Playwrights Conference – WPI, Montreal, Canada- Selected Playwright.
2021-2022. VeiculoSUR International Residency, Helsinki, Finland- Resident Artist.
2021. The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike)- Covid Grant Recipient.
2017. IETM international network for contemporary performing arts, Brussels, Belgium – Co-participant with Greek stage designer Ermina Apostolaki; pitched ‘Stitching Peripheries’, a Balkan theater festival proposal.
2017. Internationales Forum, Theatertreffen, Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany – Scholar of Goethe Institute at the International Forum.
2017. Internationales Forum, Theatertreffen, Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany –
Participant at the “Metamorphosis of Text” workshop by Kris Verdonck and Kristof Van Baarle.
2016. Writing for the radio, Prishtina, Kosova – Participant in the workshop led by the acclaimed BBC radio playwright, founder of In Battalions and Tamasha Artistic director, Fin Kennedy.
2016. Developing drama, Prishtina, Kosovam- Participant in the workshop led by the acclaimed British playwright and theater director, former Royal Court Artistic Director, Richard Twyman.
2015. IETM international network for contemporary performing arts, Bergamo, Italy – Participant. Pitched for personal theatrical projects and attended talks during the meeting.
2014. IETM international network for contemporary performing arts, Sofia, Bulgaria –
Presenter of Kosovan Contemporary Theater during the session dedicated to theater in Balkans.
2013. Transforming Trauma Through Art, Prishtina, Kosova –
Co-author and performer in “Internally Displaced’, outcome of workshop organized by Form ZFD with director and professor from NYU/Tisch school, Elizabeth Hess. The play premiered at Dodona Theater in Prishtina and was performed at the Belgrade Feminist Festival in December 2013.
2010. Die Neue Schtucke aus Europa, Wiesbaden, Germany –
Participant in the playwriting workshop lead by renowned British playwright, Mark Ravenhill and presented my play โQueen of Spades, Jack of Diamondsโ for playwrightsโ review.
2009. European Week Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands- Participant in scheming regional integration projects for Balkans.
2005. Balkan Playwrights Seminar, Prishtina, Kosova – Author of the play about male puberty, Maliโs Mustache.