MARIA ABERG
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Maria is an award-winning director, performance maker and writer. She was born and raised in the south of Sweden and started her career at the Royal Court Theatre, working as an Assistant Director on several shows before making her debut with F. X. Kroetz’s STALLERHOF at the Southwark Playhouse in 2006. Since then, Maria has directed at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, the Royal Exchange, Donmar Warehouse and Theatre Royal Bath, amongst others, and internationally she has worked at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Malmö Stadsteater and at the Staatstheater Mainz. She was a judge for the 2017 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and served on the board of Pentabus Theatre between 2015 and 2019. Maria has been an Associate Artist at the Royal Shakespeare Company since 2017. Read more about Maria’s work here.
Contact Maria by emailing maria@projekteuropa.org
ANNA OGGERO
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Originally from Italy, Anna is a London-based theatre producer, teacher, and performer. After graduating in Performing Arts from the Accademia dello Spettacolo in Turin and getting a Bachelor’s and Master’s combined degree from Law University of Turin, Anna moved to London in 2017 to study at Goldsmiths University where she graduated with distinction from the MA in Musical Theatre Production. In addition to her work at PROJEKT EUROPA, Anna is also working as an independent producer with Opera Co-Pro Ltd, the JEWish Cabaret and Trinacria Theatre Company. She has also held positions at Proud Haddock Productions Ltd and Finchley Children’s Music Group. Anna is a teacher of Drama and Music at Sial.school; Head of Singing at Almost Famous Performing Arts and drama teacher for Little Voices SWL.
Contact Anna by emailing anna@projekteuropa.org
DRAMATURG
Born and raised in Hamburg, she studied German literature, philosophy and art history in her home town and in Berlin. She has been working as a dramaturg in the German-speaking theatre world for more than 25 years. Permanent engagements include positions at Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Neumarkttheater Zürich, Theater Basel, Burgtheater Wien and the Niedersächsische Staatstheater. In addition she has worked at Salzburger Festspiele, Münchner Opernfestspiele, Zürcher Festspiele, and the Biennale für Neues Musiktheater in München. She lectures at several universities and art academies and publishes continually in professional journals. Together with director Barbara Frey she curated the Ruhrtriennale 2021-2023, and she is currently dramaturg at the Deutsches Theater in Hamburg..