Participants

Giacomo Veronesi is a theatre director & performance artist now based in Tallinn. After an MA in Economics and collaborating with Anatolii Vasil’ev in the context of laboratory theatre, Veronesi moves to the post-dramatic scene working intensively in Hamburg at Thalia Theater. He then becomes actively interested in performance and other artistic media than theater and starts a Ph.D. in embodied performative practices at Tallinn University of Music and Drama (https://eamt.ee/en/inimesed/giacomo-veronesi). Meanwhile, he teaches frequently at master level (http://www.mastersincppm.com) and keeps creating theater works in the German-speaking context, e.g. at Luzerner Theater (https://www.luzernertheater.ch/giacomoveronesi) or in the free scene, for example in Zurich together with Barbara Weber and Alicia Aumüller (https://dearaccomplice.weebly.com). At the moment he is collaborating with the company Diorama, creating digital Art in Virtual and Augmented Reality.

Barbara Weber is a Swiss director, curator, and general manager. She lives with her family in Zurich. She is co-president of the association Pro Kultur Kanton Zurich. She studied directing at the Institute for Theater, Music Theater, and Film in Hamburg. From 2008 to 2013 she was co-director of Theater Neumarkt in Zurich. She worked among others at HAU in Berlin, at Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, at Schauspiel Essen, Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin, Münchner Kammerspiele, Wiener Festwochen, National Theater Athens, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Theaterspektakel, Manifesta, Kunsthalle Zürich, Residenztheater Munich and at Schauspielhaus Wien. She was the overall curatorial director of the long-term festival ZH-REFORMATION.CH and project manager at Kunst: Szene Zürich 2018. She has been on the artistic advisory board of IMPULSE Theater Festival since 2016. Barbara Weber realizes transdisciplinary projects with Transit Productions that combine theater, art, science, music, and politics.