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Data Tavadze

Director

Tamara TrunovaChief director, Honoured Artist of Ukraine

Data Tavadze (b. 1989) is a Georgian theatre director, playwright, and producer. He began his career early, staging his first play at sixteen and directing his first production at eighteen.

Since 2009, he has served as Artistic Director of the Royal District Theatre (RDT) in Tbilisi, where he has developed a repertoire confronting political and social realities while mentoring a new generation of Georgian artists. Under his leadership, RDT has achieved international recognition, touring widely across Europe. A board member of the Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre, Tavadze is the recipient of the Talking About Borders prize for the play Warmother (2015), the Fast Forward Festival Prize (2916), and the Sandro Akhmeteli Award for Women of Troy. He has directed at at Deutsches Theater Berlin, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin,

Badisches

Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Polish Theatre Bydgoszcz, Dailes Theatre Riga, to name a few.

“The Caucasian Chalk Circle” is his first performance in Kyiv.

Performances

Caucasian Chalk Circle − Director