Roza Sarkisian
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Roza Volodymyrivna Sarkisian ({{Langx|uk|Роза Володимирівна Саркісян}}, Armenian: Ռոզա Սարգսյան; born 20 January 1987) is a Ukrainian theatre director and curator.{{Cite web|title=About Radio Mariia (director Roza Sarkisian) - Teatr Powszechny|url=https://www.powszechny.com/spektakle/szczegoly.html?id=1889&lang=en|access-date=2022-02-19|website=www.powszechny.com}}
Biography
She studied Political Sociology at the National University of Kharkiv. She graduated in Directing the Kharkiv National University of Arts in 2012.{{Cite web|trans-title=Roza Sarkisian |title=Саркісян Роза |url=https://theatre.love/persons/roza-sark-syan/|access-date=2021-03-05|website=theatre.love|language=uk}}
In her Kharkiv artistic period she was the founder and artistic director of the independent De Facto Theatre (2012-2017), where she directed the play "Yes my Führer" by Brigitte Schwaiger, performance VO(Y)NA, post-documentary play Museum of Peace. Museum of War, To Kill Woman and others productions.{{Cite web|title=4.48 Psychosis (Kyiv) {{!}} Director Roza Sarkisian|url=https://www.britishcouncil.org.ua/en/theatre2017/winners/4.48-psychosis|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2020-02-11|title=Постдрама: вихід із "гетто"|url=https://zbruc.eu/node/95521|access-date=2021-03-05|website=Збруч|language=uk}}
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.{{Cite web|title="The time has come to treat our audience like adults," stage director Roza Sarkisian's observation following the experience of her mobility tour to Berlin|url=http://culturebridges.eu/success_stories_en/roza_sarkisyan}} She worked in Lviv with Polish dramaturge Joanna Wichowska on the production of Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful Times Times.{{Cite web|title=PIĘKNE, PIĘKNE, PIĘKNE CZASY / ПРЕКРАСНІ, ПРЕКРАСНІ, ПРЕКРАСНІ ЧАСИ|url=https://teatr-polski.pl/wydarzenia/piekne-piekne-piekne-czasy-%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%ba%d1%80%d0%b0%d1%81%d0%bd%d1%96-%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%ba%d1%80%d0%b0%d1%81%d0%bd%d1%96-%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%ba%d1%80%d0%b0%d1%81%d0%bd/|access-date=2021-03-05|website=Teatr Polski w Poznaniu|language=pl-PL}}{{Cite web|last=Burnell|first=Emma|title=Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful Times – Close Strangers Festival|url=https://playstosee.com/beautiful-beautiful-beautiful-times-close-strangers-festival/}}
In the years of 2017-2019 she was a Staff Director on the House in Ivano-Frankivsk National Academic Drama and Music Theatre.{{Cite web|title=У мистецтві я шукаю іншодумців|url=https://m.day.kyiv.ua/uk/article/kultura/u-mystectvi-ya-shukayu-inshodumciv}}
She also worked with the Theatre Powszechny in Warsaw{{Cite web|title=Zrobiła spektakl "Radio Mariia". Jest pewna, że "ludzie przejrzą na oczy i Kościół upadnie"|url=https://theworldnews.net/pl-news/zrobila-spektakl-radio-mariia-jest-pewna-ze-ludzie-przejrza-na-oczy-i-kosciol-upadnie}} (2021), Lesia Ukrainka Academic Theatre in Lviv (2020),{{Cite web|title=Macbeth {{!}} director Roza Sarkisian|url=https://teatrlesi.lviv.ua/event/makbet/}} Kyiv Academic Theatre Actor (2018),{{Cite web|title=Great Performances in Kyiv: October 2018|url=https://destinations.com.ua/events/performances/486-great-performances-in-kyiv-october-2018}} Kharkiv Theatre for Children and Youth in Kharkiv, Municipal Theatre (2015), the Russian Academic Youth Theatre in Moscow (2013),{{Cite web|title=100-летие со дня рождения драматурга Виктора Розова|url=https://ramt.ru/projects/130/}} the Udmurt Academic Theatre of Russian Drama (2013).{{Cite web|title=В Русском драматическом театре Удмуртии вновь открылась Творческая лаборатория|url=https://ijevsk.bezformata.com/listnews/vnov-otkrilas-tvorcheskaya-laboratoriya/13830495/}}
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.{{Cite web|last=Creaton-Barber|first=Grace|date=|title=H-Effect Close Strangers Festival 2021|url=https://playstosee.com/h-effect/}}{{Cite web|last=Khromeychuk|first=Olesya|title=The real challenge is the arrival of the 'new normal'|url=https://ukrainianinstitute.org.uk/the-real-challenge-is-arrival-of-the-new-normal/}} During the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine, Sarkisian directed productions which premiered online.{{Cite web|title="Украдене щастя" живого театру. Критики – про пандемічний театральний рік|url=https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-culture/3162125-ukradene-sasta-zivogo-teatru-kritiki-pro-pandemicnij-teatralnij-rik.html|access-date=2021-03-05|website=www.ukrinform.ua|language=uk}}
In 2021 she directed a production of KOLO-BO-RACIO which worked with young people and actors with disabilities.{{Cite web|title=Примірка костюмів і підготовка до вистав: актори Франківського драмтеатру розповіли про роботу під час локдауну. ФОТО/ВІДЕО|url=https://www.ratusha.if.ua/%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b8%d0%bc%d1%96%d1%80%d0%ba%d0%b0-%d0%ba%d0%be%d1%81%d1%82%d1%8e%d0%bc%d1%96%d0%b2-%d1%96-%d0%bf%d1%96%d0%b4%d0%b3%d0%be%d1%82%d0%be%d0%b2%d0%ba%d0%b0-%d0%b4%d0%be-%d0%b2%d0%b8%d1%81/|access-date=2021-03-05|website=Ратуша|language=uk}}
Among her recent most applauded works are: Yes, my Fuhrer (Theatre DeFacto, 2014), the My Granddad was digging. My Dad was digging. But I Won't Do It (Ukrainian-Polish co-production, co-director: Agnieszka Błońska, 2016);{{Cite web |date=2016-10-09 |title=Розлючені й чесні |url=https://zbruc.eu/node/57130 |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=Збруч |language=uk}} Theory of the Big Filter (Theatre of the Contemporary Dialog, Poltava, 2017); Psychosis (Theatre Actor in Kyiv, 2018); Wonderful, Wonderful, Wonderful Times (the First Theatre in Lviv, 2018); and Macbeth (Academic Lesia Ukrainka Drama Theatre in Lviv, 2019),{{Cite web |title=МАКБЕТ - Театр Лесі Українки |url=https://teatrlesi.lviv.ua/event/makbet/ |access-date=2024-02-07 |language=uk}} H-effect based on Hamlet by Shakeaspeare and Hamletmaschine by Heiner Muller (Ukraine-Polish-German co-production, NGO “Art-Dialogue”, 2020), Radio Mariia by Joanna Wichowska and Krysia Bednarek (Theatre Powszechny in Warsaw, 2022).
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 (including Gogol Fest in Kyiv, 2014 and 2016; Urban Exploration Lviv Fest 2014; GaliciaKult in Kharkiv, 2016; Terra Futura in Kherson, 2016; Startup Gogol Fest in Mariupol 2017; the Golden Lion in Lviv, 2018; Parade Fest in Kharkiv, 2018 and 2019; Svitohliad in Severodonieck, 2019) and in Poland: Desant.UA Festival in Warsaw, 2017; Close Strangers Festival in Poznań, 2019.
Awards
Roza is a winner of the British Council Ukraine competition "Taking the Stage 2017", as well as the Gaude Polonia scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland in 2017, International Mobility Grant “Culture Bridges”{{Cite web|title="The time has come to treat our audience like adults," stage director Roza Sarkisyan's observation following the experience of her mobility tour to Berlin|url=http://culturebridges.eu/success_stories_en/roza_sarkisyan}} and the Artistic Scholarship from the President of Ukraine in 2019/2020.{{Cite web|title=Про призначення стипендій Президента України для молодих письменників і митців у сфері музичного, театрального, образотворчого, хореографічного, естрадно-циркового мистецтва та кіномистецтва|url=https://pen.org.ua/opportunity/mozhlyvosti-dlya-pysmennykiv-perekladachiv-i-zhurnalistiv-u-travni/}} She also won a "City of Lviv Personality of the Year 2018” award in the category of Theatre.
References
External links
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- H-effect (YouTube)
- Podcast: [https://aristocrats.fm/podcasts/taking-the-stage-roza-sarkisyan-psihoz-o-4-48/ Taking the Stage — Роза Саркісян]
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