Roza Sarkisian
Ukrainian theatre director
Roza Sarkisian (Ukrainian: Роза Володимирівна Саркісян, Armenian: Ռոզա Սարգսյան; born 20 January 1987) is a Ukrainian theatre director and curator.
Biography
She studied political sociology at the National University of Kharkiv and graduated in directing from the Kharkiv National University of Arts in 2012.
During her artistic period in Kharkiv, she founded and served as artistic director of the De Facto Theatre (2012–2017), an independent theatre group based at the Kharkiv Municipal Gallery that created documentary, site-specific, and devised performances in public spaces such as supermarkets, parks, and a circus.
In 2017, she co-curated the DESANT.UA, a showcase of independent Ukrainian theatre projects in Warsaw.
From 2017 to 2019, she was Chief Director of the First Ukrainian Academic Theatre for Children and Youth in Lviv. From 2019 to 2020, she worked as a director at the Ivano-Frankivsk National Academic Drama and Music Theatre.
She has collaborated with a number of theatres in Ukraine and Europe, including Maxim Gorki Theater (2023–2025) , Teatr Dramatyczny in Warsaw (2023) , Polish Theatre, Poznań (2021) , Theatre Powszechny in Warsaw (2021), Lesia Ukrainka Academic Theatre in Lviv (2020), Kyiv Academic Theatre Actor (2018), Kharkiv Theatre for Children and Youth in Kharkiv (2015).
In 2020, she staged H-Effect, a post-documentary performance based on the personal experiences of performers, including professional actors, war veterans, and an LGBT activist, combining motifs from Shakespeare's Hamlet and Heiner Müller's Hamletmachine.. The rehearsals of H-Effect and the participants’ stories served as the basis for the documentary film The Hamlet Syndrome, directed by Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosołowski .
In 2021, Sarkisian, together with dramaturge Joanna Wichowska, visual artist Kiju Szałankiewicz and producer Dominika Mądry co-created Freedom Square, a performative installation with Poznań’s queer community at the Close Strangers: The East Festival at the Polish Theatre in Poznań (curator Agata Siwiak).
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