Roza Sarkisian
Roza Volodymyrivna Sarkisian is a Ukrainian theatre director and curator.
Biography
She studied Political Sociology at the National University of Kharkiv. She graduated in Directing the Kharkiv National University of Arts in 2012.In her Kharkiv artistic period she was the founder and artistic director of the independent De Facto Theatre, where she directed the play "Yes my Führer" by Brigitte Schwaiger, performance VONA, post-documentary play Museum of Peace. Museum of War, To Kill Woman and others productions.
In the years of 2017-2019 Roza worked as the Chief Director Theatre Director of the First Ukrainian Academic Theatre for Children and Youth in Lviv. She worked in Lviv with Polish dramaturge Joanna Wichowska on the production of Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful Times Times.
In the years of 2017-2019 she was a Staff Director on the House in Ivano-Frankivsk National Academic Drama and Music Theatre.
She also worked with the Theatre Powszechny in Warsaw, Lesia Ukrainka Academic Theatre in Lviv, Kyiv Academic Theatre Actor, Kharkiv Theatre for Children and Youth in Kharkiv, Municipal Theatre, the Russian Academic Youth Theatre in Moscow, the Udmurt Academic Theatre of Russian Drama.
In 2020 she staged post-documentary performance based on the experiences of actors and actresses and inspired by motifs from Shakespeare's Hamlet and Heiner Müller's Hamletmachine H-effect. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine, Sarkisian directed productions which premiered online.
In 2021 she directed a production of KOLO-BO-RACIO which worked with young people and actors with disabilities.
Among her recent most applauded works are: Yes, my Fuhrer, the My Granddad was digging. My Dad was digging. But I Won't Do It ; Theory of the Big Filter ; Psychosis ; Wonderful, Wonderful, Wonderful Times ; and Macbeth, H-effect based on Hamlet by Shakeaspeare and Hamletmaschine by Heiner Muller, Radio Mariia by Joanna Wichowska and Krysia Bednarek.
Her productions, dealing with the topics of collective memory, national identity, political manipulation, non-normativity and social oppression have won several awards and invitations to many festivals in Ukraine and in Poland: Desant.UA Festival in Warsaw, 2017; Close Strangers Festival in Poznań, 2019.