dramaqueer is an international performing arts platform dedicated to non-conforming gender theatre makers. The scenarios for the performance are created and developed in various workshops, using observational, documentary, devised, biographical, or any other forms of queer theatre. The website is a sharing space for fragments of the plays, information on the authors, interviews, documentary materials, and other sources used in the creation of the plays.
Through observation and self-observation, auto-representation, reflection, and auto-fiction we create plays written by non-conforming gender theatre authors. We build characters, situations, positive conflicts, and resolutions, bringing to stage the queer theatre.
dramaqueer has been initiated in 2020 by Bogdan Georgescu and Alberto Orlandi.
About the initiators
Bogdan Georgescu
The non-binary artist and social activist Bogdan Georgescu, Romanian, based in Berlin, works as a theatre author, performing arts curator, and cultural manager. The basis of their work is the Active Art method (the process to transform everyday life into a collective work of art – def. Georgescu), which they had developed over the last 15 years. Their projects are characterized by close social observation and artistic intervention together with under-pressure communities.
In 2020, Georgescu initiated, together with Alberto Orlandi, dramaqueer – an international program dedicated to non-conforming gender theatre makers. In 2007, Georgescu co-founded O2G – Generosity’s Offensive – an organization with a core mission to strengthen various communities through the arts. Georgescu launched tangaProject in 2005, a theater group dedicated to developing new drama and new forms of dramatic expression reflecting social realities through collaboration with various social groups. As a theatre author, speaker, and lecturer, they have participated in numerous international theatre festivals and conferences in the United States, Italy, Austria, France, Spain, Poland, Ireland, Serbia, Moldova, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Germany, and Romania.
Georgescu completed their Ph.D. in 2013 at the National University of Theatre and Film Arts in Bucharest with the thesis Active Art and Community Theatre, MA in playwright (UNATC 2009), and BA in theatre directing (UNATC 2007). Fellowships have taken them to several U.S. universities (University of Vermont, CUNY, Brown University, Pace University). In 2022, they received a fellowship from Akademie der Künste Berlin, 2022. Georgescu published two theatre-scenarios books – All Inclusive (Charmides Publishing 2015) and The Tender Trilogy (Black Button Books, 2022), along with various articles and plays as part of anthologies. In 2023, Georgescu received the federal Fonds Darstellende Künste research grant for the project Shredded Stories. Starting 2016, they collaborate with Hebbel am Ufer HAU Berlin, on theatre for youth project such us der unwahrscheinliche Fall (2016), Flexination (2017), Reboot (2017), All my secrets (2018).
Georgescu has received several awards for their work, including the International Association of Theatre Critics Award for Tour in the Countryside 2010; the Irish Embassy Award for Best Playwright – People’s House, 2011; the Best Performance Award – ROGVAIV, European Theatre Performance Festival, Timișoara 2012; the Audience Award – Romania! Kiss Me – New Plays from Europe Festival Wiesbaden 2010; the Best Young Artist Award (together with David Schwartz) for Romania! Kiss Me – Kontakt Festival, Torun, Poland 2012; the Best Theatre Project Award of the National Cultural Radio Station Gala for Antisocial, 2016; Iulian Vișa Award for directing, the International Theatre Festival Sibiu 2016; the Silver Bear Award for Blue Boy (directed by Manuel Abramovich), 69th Berlinale – Berlin International Film Festival 2019; the best short documentary – Blue Boy, German Film Awards 2019.
Youtube channel: bo2gdan
Alberto Orlandi
Alberto Orlandi is an emerging cultural manager and curator of performances and cultural events, with great attention to detail and organization.
Orlandi is actively engaged in understanding the impact of communication and public policies on the reflection and shaping of society. His main focus is on cultural management and cultural projects that aim to bring people together and connect, build communities and create spaces for marginalized groups that empower individual and collective voices.
In 2020, Orlandi initiated, together with Bogdan Georgescu, dramaqueer – an international program dedicated to non-conforming gender theatre makers, curating since then the managment, production and communication of the dramaqueer projects.
Orlandi completed at the Roma Tre University in Rome his MA in European studies (2014) with the thesis on the budget policy of the European Union, and BA in communication sciences (2012). In 2013, Orlandi obtained the EU Project Design and Management 2014-2020 master certificate at the Europa Business School in Rome.