International jury

SHERMIN LANGHOFF

SHERMIN LANGHOFF has been the artistic director of the Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin since 2013, her directorship has currently been prolonged until 2026. After her first career as editor in a publishing house, she worked as assistant director and producer for many years in film with renowned directors like Fatih Akin. After first encounters with theatre at the Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg Platz she continued her artistic work as curator at Berlin's Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) ...

LUCIA VAN HETEREN

LUCIA VAN HETEREN (1961) is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Groningen. She studied French literature in Aix-en-Provence, Utrecht and Paris, Literary Translation in Göttingen and Theatre-, Film- and Television Studies at the University of Utrecht. Her main research- and teaching areas are dramaturgy, performance analysis and contemporary theatre. She lectured among others in Helsinki, London City University, Turin and Tel Aviv. She wrote ...

AGATA JUNIKU

AGATA JUNIKU (1974) teaches at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. Upon finishing the studies in Philosophy and Comparative literature in Zagreb, she finished post-graduate studies in Philosophy at Université Paris 8 and obtained her PhD at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. She is the author of the book Indoš and Živadinov, theatre-bio-graphies: Light and the Ludic as Modes of the Political in Theatre (2019). She has been following contemporary theatre and dance ...

CECILIA DJURBERG

CECILIA DJURBERG is Swedish theatre and dance critic and journalist, based in Stockholm. She is 46 years old and has a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Theatre History and Theory from Stockholm University. She has worked as a professional critic, culture journalist, and editor for more than 20 years, in newspapers, web magazines, and in Swedish Public Service Radio. Since 2018, she has written criticism in Sweden’s largest daily newspaper Aftonbladet . She also produces ...

JOVANA TOMIĆ

JOVANA TOMIĆ was born in Belgrade in 1990. She obtained her BA and MA at the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade, Theatre Directing department. Some of her directions include: The Ridiculous Darkness (Atelje 212), Lolita (Madlenianum), Lysistrata (National Theatre Subotica), If Twice Rotates the Weather Vane/ Waiting for Future (Paolo Grassi, Bussole rotte), Going Out (Drugstore, 20/44), Nathan the Wise and My Husband (Yugoslav Drama Theatre), On the Darkening Green ...