The five European journalists present during the TERRORisms Festival in Stuttgart

24 – 28 June 2015

The jounalists in Stuttgart in discussion with Ruth Heynen, director of the U.T.E. and Karel Bartak, director of the "Creative Europe" programme of the European Union. Photo — The five jounalists in Stuttgart in discussion with Ruth Heynen, director of the U.T.E. and Karel Bartak, director of the “Creative Europe” programme of the European Union. Photo © Jennifer Ressel/U.T.E.

Sergio Lo Gatto

Born 1982. Lives and works as a freelance theatre critic and cultural journalist in Rome/Italy.
He studied Theatre and Performing Arts at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” where he has a PhD scholarship in Theatre Studies and co-leads a permanent workshop on theatre criticism. He is one if the founders and writers for the independent daily web magazine Teatro e Critica, which is the most read performing arts-oriented online publication in Italy. In 2011 he was selected for the SPACE – Writers on the Move platform. During the following years, he joined a team of four writers from four different European countries and launched a program of itinerant residencies for critics, aimed at developing an international point of view on theatre and performing arts through an experiment of collective writing.

Nina Mochalova

Born 1986. Lives and works in Moscow/Russia. Currently she is studiying Theatre Studies and Criticism at the Russian University of Theatre Arts. She has graduated from the Moscow State Linguistic University in Linguistics and Language Training in 2008, followed by a Master’s degree in Translation and Interpretation Studies in 2010. Nina writes regularly for the online magazine teatral-online.ru. She runs the young journalists training project “Malii Goroda Rossii” (Small cities of Russia) from 2004 to 2014.

Inês Nadais

Born 1976. Lives and works as a cultural journalist in Porto/Portugal, focusing on the performing arts and specially theatre and dance. She studied Social Communication at the „Universidade do Minho“, specializing in Journalism and audio-visual Production/Direction. She is now working as the Editor-in-chief at Ípsilon, Público’s art and entertainment weekly supplement. She received an honorary mention on the 3rd edition of the Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses’ Journalism Prize for the Ípsilon feature “Programar no Interior é uma Luta. E a Luta Continua” in 2008.

Boris Zafirov

Born 1985. He works as a theatre dramatist at the Rhodobe Theatre „Nikolay Haytov“ in Plovdiv/Bulgaria and as a cultural journalist for several magazines. He studied Theatre Management at the stage department of the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia, following by studies of Art Management at the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts in Plovdiv. He wrote for several print and online magazines, such as the “Theatre” magazine, “LIK”, Magazine “8”, blistermagazine.com, Puppet Art, dramaturgynew.net, stand.bg, lik- bta.bg, GIFT – magazine for independent theatre – Vienna. His creative work as a director and video artist explores a variety of forms from performance to documentary and fictional short films. Excerpt from his film work: Bright Shadow (2012) Marta 12:30 (2013), Satellites (2013), Lossy Compresion (2013), Slapstick (2014), Finix (2015).

Lillian Bikset

Born 1976. Lives and works in Oslo/Norway.
Lillian works as a theatre critic for the newspaper Dagbladet and the journal Norsk Shakespeare- og teatertidsskrift and also as a translator (mostly for the performing arts database Sceneweb.no), a visiting lecturer (Nordic Black Xpress/NBX) and writer. She is responsible for several of the theatre categories in Norway’s leading encyclopaedia: Store Norske Leksikon. She is working on an essay project on theatre, planned to be published as a book. Currently she is a member of the juries of the Norwegian theatre awards The Hedda Awards, the drama text award Scenetekstprisen and the musical theatre award Musikkteaterprisen.