roza sarkisian

Roza Sarkisian is a Ukrainian theatre director and curator whose works explore collective memory, national identity, non-normativity, and power through devised, documentary, and queer art strategies.

She holds degrees in Theatre Directing from the National University of Arts named after I. P. Kotlyarevsky in Kharkiv (2012) and in Political Sociology from V. N. Karazin National University in Kharkiv (2009).

From 2014 to 2017, she was the artistic director of Kharkiv’s independent DeFacto Theatre. From 2017 to 2019, she served as the principal director at the First Academic Theatre for Children and Youth in Lviv, and simultaneously at the Ivano-Frankivsk National Drama and Musical Theatre.

Her notable works include My Grandfather Dug. My Father Dug. But I Won’t (2016), The Great Filter Theory (2017), Psychosis (2018), Beautiful Times (2018), Macbeth (2019), H-effect (2020), Radio Mariia (2022), Ship. Bridge. Body (2023), Fucking Truffaut (2023), and Karabakh Memory (2025).

Her work has been recognized internationally and supported by institutions like British Council Ukraine, Gaude Polonia, Culture Bridges, UCF, Culture Moves Europe, and the Warsaw City Arts Fund. In 2018, she was named “Personality of the Year” in Theatre in Lviv.

Roza also curates youth and educational projects such as Desant UA, Drama Teen Lab, Young Directors for Children, and has worked with displaced children and non-professional actors across Europe.