Vicki Ann Cremona

Cremona served as Ambassador to France from April 2005 to February 2009.{{Cite web |title=Ambassadors |url=https://www.mfccmalta.com/en/ambassadors |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=Maltese French Chamber of Commerce |language=en}} She was chosen for the position in part because she had lived in France for a number of years. As ambassador, she visited French secondary schools to discuss Maltese history and culture.{{Cite web |date=2007-03-31 |title=Maltese Culture in French schools |url=https://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2007-03-31/local-news/Maltese-Culture-in-French-schools-171337 |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=Malta Independent}} During her term, the French government held the presidency of the Council of the European Union.{{Cite web |title=Setting the stage {{!}} Vicki-Ann Cremona |url=https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/arts/theatre_and_dance/44992/setting_the_stage__vickiann_cremona |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=Malta Today |language=en}} As part of this, the French government undertook an initiative to publish a play from each country in the EU. Cremona later said that "I offered several Maltese plays and the organisers kept turning them down because they were too 'amateur'". This experience has driven Cremona to support programs fostering playwrights in Malta.

She served as Ambassador to Tunisia between 2009 and 2013. While in the role, she gave talks on Maltese culture{{Cite web |date=2010-02-26 |title=Talk On Maltese culture in Tunisia |url=https://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2010-02-26/local-news/Talk-On-Maltese-culture-in-Tunisia-270874 |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=Malta Independent}} and met with Tunisian political leaders{{Cite web |date=2012-03-06 |title=Maltese Ambassador meets Tunisian Ennahda Party head |url=https://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2012-03-06/news/maltese-ambassador-meets-tunisian-ennahda-party-head-306805/ |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=Malta Independent}} and Maltese expatriates.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2009-07-17 |title=Maltese voluntary workers in Tunisia met by ambassador |url=https://timesofmalta.com/article/maltese-voluntary-workers-in-tunisia-met-by-ambassador.265366 |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=Times of Malta |language=en-gb}}

Cremona is the Chair of the School of Performing Arts at the University of Malta, and a professor in the Theatre Studies Department.

Much of Cremona's academic writing and research has focused on theatre in Malta. In addition to writing several books, Cremona has also contributed chapters on theatre and performance to two Routledge Companion books.{{Cite book |last1=Cremona |first1=Vicki Ann |title=The Routledge companion to theatre and performance historiography |last2=Mejri |first2=Mahmoud |date=2021 |publisher=Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |isbn=978-0-367-52474-6 |editor-last=Davis |editor-first=Tracy C. |series=Routledge Companions |location=London ; New York |chapter=The Role of Theatre in the Modernisation of Tunisia |editor-last2=Marx |editor-first2=Peter W.}}{{Cite book |title=The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance |date=2024 |publisher=Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |isbn=978-1-003-08253-8 |editor-last=Remshardt |editor-first=Ralf |location=London New York |chapter=Malta |editor-last2=Mancewicz |editor-first2=Aneta}}

Cremona served as Repubblika's president from 2019 to 2020. She returned to the position as acting president in early 2024; she was confirmed as president in September 2024. She has spoken in favor of freedom of the press, and criticized Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela's policies regarding the press.{{Cite web |last=Balzan |first=Jurgen |date=2024-04-16 |title=PM's disdain for press freedom undermines democracy – Vicki Ann Cremona |url=https://newsbook.com.mt/en/pms-disdain-for-press-freedom-undermines-democracy-vicki-ann-cremona/ |website=Newsbook Malta}}

Some of the books Cremona co-edited and co-authored include:

• Spazji Teatrali, A Catalogue of Theatres in Malta and Gozo (2017)
• {{Cite book |last= |first= |title=Carnival and Power: Play and Politics in a Crown Colony |date=2018 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-3-319-70655-9 |series=Transnational Theatre Histories |location=Cham}}{{Cite journal |last=Prichard |first=Rebecca |date=2020 |title=Carnival and Power: Play and Politics in a Crown Colony by Vicki Ann Cremona (review) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/6/article/755378/pdf |journal=TDR: The Drama Review |volume=64 |issue=2 |pages=171–173 |doi=10.1162/dram_r_00927 |issn=1531-4715|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Calder |first=David |date=August 2019 |title=Vicki Ann Cremona Carnival and Power: Play and Politics in a Crown Colony London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 304 p. £88.00. ISBN: 978-3-319-70655-9. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/new-theatre-quarterly/article/abs/vicki-ann-cremona-carnival-and-power-play-and-politics-in-a-crown-colony-london-palgrave-macmillan-2018-304-p-8800-isbn-9783319706559/14C03DBF2C402267DC6C5BEC0DA7D1F3 |journal=New Theatre Quarterly |language=en |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=288 |doi=10.1017/S0266464X19000332 |issn=0266-464X|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Vella |first=Theresa |date=2020 |title=Carnival and Power: Play and Politics in a Crown Colony by Vicki-Ann Cremona (review) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/303/article/779816 |journal=Journal of Mediterranean Studies |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=122–124 |issn=2523-9465}}

• {{Cite book |title=Playing Culture: Conventions and Extensions of Performance |publisher=Rodopi |year=2014 |isbn=978-94-012-1039-3 |editor-last=Cremona |editor-first=Vicki Ann |series=Themes in theatre |location=Amsterdam}}

• {{Cite book |title=The Renaissance Theatre: Texts, Performance, Design |publisher=Routledge |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-429-02643-0 |chapter=Spectacle and 'Civil liturgies' in Malta during the time of the Knights of St. John}}
• {{Cite book |last1=Cremona |first1=Vicki Ann |title=The Routledge companion to theatre and performance historiography |last2=Mejri |first2=Mahmoud |date=2021 |publisher=Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |isbn=978-0-367-52474-6 |editor-last=Davis |editor-first=Tracy C. |series=Routledge Companions |location=London ; New York |chapter=The Role of Theatre in the Modernisation of Tunisia |editor-last2=Marx |editor-first2=Peter W.}}
• {{Cite book |title=The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance |date=2024 |publisher=Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |isbn=978-1-003-08253-8 |editor-last=Remshardt |editor-first=Ralf |location=London New York |chapter=Malta |editor-last2=Mancewicz |editor-first2=Aneta}}

• {{Cite journal |date=2008-12-01 |title=Politics and Identity in Maltese Theatre: Adaptation or Innovation? |url=https://direct.mit.edu/dram/article-abstract/52/4%20(200)/118/42374/Politics-and-Identity-in-Maltese-Theatre?redirectedFrom=fulltext |journal=TDR/The Drama Review |volume=52 |issue=4 (200) |pages=118–144 |doi=10.1162/dram.2008.52.4.118 |issn=1054-2043|last1= Cremona|first1= Vicki Ann|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite journal|title=Costume in Carnival: Social Performance, Rank and Status|date= April 2016|journal= Studies in Costume & Performance|volume=1|issue=1|publisher=Intellect Ltd.|doi= 10.1386/scp.1.1.77_1|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/scp.1.1.77_1|last1= Cremona|first1= Vicki Ann|pages= 77–96|url-access= subscription}}
• {{Cite journal |date=2020-01-02 |title=Stanislavski's system: mimesis, truth and verisimilitude |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20567790.2019.1700735 |journal=Stanislavski Studies |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=23–32 |doi=10.1080/20567790.2019.1700735 |issn=2056-7790|last1= Cremona|first1= Vicki Ann|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite journal|date=2019-12-16 |title=Theatre in Malta: Amateur Practice and Professional Aspirations |url=https://www.critical-stages.org/20/theatre-in-malta-amateur-practice-and-professional-aspirations/ |issue=2020|access-date=2025-04-01 |journal=Critical Stages/Scènes critiques: The IATC journal/Revue de l'AICT|publisher=University of Illinois|language=en-US}}
• {{Cite journal |date=May 2022 |title=Empowering Civil Society: The Theatricality of Protest in Malta |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0266464X22000033/type/journal_article |journal=New Theatre Quarterly |language=en |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=125–138 |doi=10.1017/S0266464X22000033 |issn=0266-464X|last1= Cremona|first1= Vicki Ann|url-access=subscription }}

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