Tea Tupajic
Regisseurin
Tea Tupajić is a Croatian theatre and film director. Often engaging in long processes with invited protagonists who always seems to either be reluctant to be on stage or to have a lot to lose by doing so, she investigates the potential of art when confronted with controversial political and personal issues. Tupajić’s internationally presented works include: “Licht” (2023), “DARK NUMBERS” (2018), “Spy School” (2016), “The Disco” (2015), her Variété Europe trilogy part “Orpheus” (2013), “Objects’ game” (2012), “The Curators’ Piece” (in collaboration with Petra Zanki, 2011) and “La maladie de la mort” (2009).
Her first feature length film, “Darkness There and Nothing More” (2021), celebrated its world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) Envision competition. She earned nominations for IDFA Award for Best First Feature and IDFA Award for Best Dutch Film.
Tea Tupajić as participant of the International Forum 2013:
Director, Zagreb, Croatia
Tea Tupajić, born in Sarajevo in 1984, studied theatre directing in Zagreb. She has realised works in the fields of dance, performance and installation. From 2010 to 2012, she created the project “The Curators’ Piece” together with Petra Zanki, in which she also reflected on the theatre scene itself. In “Oedipus, my foot” and “Shakespeake As you like it, a body part”, she worked as a director as part of the “Agora” project (realised by the Performing Art Forum in France) in a collective together with artists such as Jan Ritsema and Xavier Le Roy. Her works have been shown in festivals such as the: BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Bastard (Trondheim), TUPP festival (Uppsala), PS 122 (New York), Kaaitheater (Brussels), steirischer herbst (Graz), PACT Zollverein (Essen). She is a guest editor and co-editor of the cultural magazine Frakcija.
As of: April 2025