Teklė Kavtaradze

film and theater dramatist, graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater. While studying at school, she published a book of prose, and her first completed play, "Namisėda, or A Room Full of Characters" won the "Versmės" competition in 2011 and was staged at the Lithuanian National Drama Theater (2012, directed by G. Tuminaitė). The author is close to the topic of adolescence, the spirit of youthful rebellion, characters who are developing and searching for themselves. Since 2017 T. Kavtaradzė worked with young Lithuanian theater directors: together with Olga Lapina, he created the dramaturgy for the play "About Fears" (State Youth Theatre), with Šarūnas Datenius he adapted "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi to the modern language of the theater (play "Pinokis", Vilnius Theater "Lėlė ") and Danguolė Kandrotienė's "Spintos istorijas" (the play "There is no WI-FI in the village", Vilnius theater "Lėlė"), and with Kamila Gudmonaite as a dramatist, she created the play "Sapnavau sapnavau", in which she delved into the life of prisoners.