Alexandra Pâzgu, born in 1985 in Sibiu, Romania, has been living and working in Vienna as an author and dramaturge since 2014. She writes poetic, performative and transdisciplinary texts for individual and collective projects and is interested in post-representation, strolling and writing/art as thinking. Since 2019 she has been working as co-founder of “baldanders theaterkollektiv” and Kollektiv Weiter in Vienna. She completed her master’s degree in dramatic writing in 2011 and received her PhD degree in theater and performing arts in a cotutelle in Giessen and Cluj-Napoca in 2018.
Among others, she received the Exil Dramatikerinnen Preis for her play “fluss, stromaufwärts” in 2018; the “Sofia Nădejde” prize for dramaturgy in 2020 and for her poetry debut in 2021; the “Neustart Kultur” scholarship from the Literaturfonds Deutschland; the “Dramatik Stipendium” from the City of Vienna and the Dramatiker:innen Stipendium from the Bmköes in 2024.
She started writing her first scenic texts in German as part of the Writers Room of the Wiener Wortstaetten, and since 2017 has also been part of the European network Fabulamundi. Playwriting Europe.
Her play “fluss, stromaufwärts” premiered at Schauspiel Leipzig in fall 2019.
As a curator, she took part in the international symposium “Female perspectives on contemporary playwriting”.
For the Entgegnungen project, she wrote the play “Wesentliche Aspekte”
For window words, Alexandra Pâzgu developed the text “Was bisher geschah” together with other fellow authors.