Petra is a passionate theatre & film & VR director, dramaturg and creative consultant who graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama (London), one of the finest addresses for advanced theatre practice in the world. She decided NOT to accept one of the extremely rare PhD places offered to her by the Media.Arts.Technology. Department at Queen Mary University London, but went out into the international limelight by staging and directing innovative plays employing forefront techniques like body mapping and live visual interaction. She has worked with Oscar winner Virgil Widrich, acclaimed theatre and opera director Richard Jones and playwright Simon Stephens (The Royal Court Theatre) and is guaranteed to entice you with her rich background in serial storytelling, immersive theatre, script development, dramaturgy, film editing, political campaigning, multimedia and even medicine.
Projects credited in
- Our Way[s] of LifeThis exhibition was set against a Europe-wide backdrop of resurgent populist sentiment the artists featured explore the weight of post-memory through introspective investigations into the intimate and familial. Through tactile actions such as queering, performance, stitching, preparing food, the artists go further than to memorialise, provoking and appropriating the materiality of the past into the present. The project was made in collaboration with the ACF London, Central Saint Martins and th
- Only Human Exhibition PhotographyShowcasing alien artefacts, Only Human is a collaboration of Austrian and UK artists and researchers. Curated by Laura Prime. Featuring work by Joey Holder (UK), Lukas Janitsch (AT), Olesya Kleymenova (AT), Elena Kristofor (AT), Paul Purgas (UK), Stephen Oram (UK) and Ernst Miesgang (AT). For this series I used an exclusive combination of natural light and the light emanating from the exhibits themselves. This approach was chosen to have as minimal a footprint as possible on the gallery floorspa
Work history
Skills
- Dramaturgy
- Directing Theatre
- Editing Film
- Text Editing
- Script Development
- Script Editing
- Script Reader
- Location Scouting
- Directing Film
- Virtual Reality
Education
MAThe Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- London, United Kingdom