Eurodram committee reports 2025
العَرَبيّة / Arabic
Following a period of inactivity, new members were invited to the Arabic committee which from November 2025 onward is to be coordinated by Annamaria Bianco and Omar Fertat.
Azərbaycanca / Azeri
The Azerbaijani Committee of EURODRAM continued its work in 2025. The committee’s activities were carried out within the framework of the CHARACTERS Modern Drama Festival under the coordination of playwright and theatre curator Ismayil Iman. The committee maintained the same composition of members, with no new additions.
The Open Call for translations of contemporary plays into Azerbaijani was announced in January 2025: https://teatro.az/az/post/muasir-dram-eserlerinin-azerbaycan-diline-tercumesi-ile-bagli-musabiqe-elan-olunur-1281
14 translations were submitted for consideration, and the Azerbaijani Committee announced the results in March 2025: https://teatro.az/az/post/characters-ve-eurodram-azerbaycan-diline-en-yaxsi-pyes-tercumelerini-mueyyenlesdirdi-1302
2025 selection of play translations by the Azerbaijani Committee of EURODRAM:
★ « Ata » (Le Père / The Father) by Florian Zeller, translated from French by Aliya Samadova
★ « İllüziyalar » (Иллюзии / Illusions) by Ivan Vyrypaev, translated from Russian by Rabiga Nazimqizi
★ « Din müəllimi » (Profu` de religie / Religion teacher) by Mihaela Michailov, translated from Romanian by Jala Ismayil
In April 2025, an award ceremony was held for the winners of the competition, who received certificates of recognition: https://teatro.az/az/post/characters-ve-eurodram-en-yaxsi-pyes-tercumecilerine-sertifikatlar-teqdim-edib-1309
In March 2025, “Argon” by Shabnam Kheyrulla, the winning play of the Azerbaijani playwriting competition determined in 2024, was staged at the Azerbaijan State Theatre YUĞ: https://yugteatri.az/az/single/arqon-tamasasi-244
Additionally, this play – first recognized in Azerbaijan through the competition – was later produced on several other stages across the country, both state and independent.
In June 2025, the CHARACTERS Modern Drama Festival, in collaboration with the British Council Azerbaijan, presented “CHARACTERS Presenting British Drama” – an educational three-day playwriting workshop led by British playwright Rory Mullarkey: https://teatro.az/az/post/characters-britaniya-dramaturgiyasini-teqdim-edir-1320
The programme also included staged readings in Azerbaijani translation of contemporary British plays by Rory Mullarkey and Zinnie Harris. The initiative aimed to strengthen connections between Azerbaijani theatre practitioners and the UK’s contemporary drama scene.
The Open Call for Azerbaijani plays was announced on October 31, 2025: https://teatro.az/az/post/characters-muasir-dramaturgiya-festivali-yeni-pyes-musabiqesini-elan-edir-1358
Applications will be accepted until February 1, 2026, and three winning plays will be selected and announced in March 2026.
български / Bulgarian
In 2025 Bulgarian Committee consisted of 14 members (9 females and 5 males, complete list), with active members for the selection 2025 – 7 members (6 females and 1 male). Since 2025, the committee coordinator has been Iliyana Hubenova, with Gergana Dimitrova as co-coordinator.
Members are stage directors, theater producers, translators, writers, scenographers, actors, cultural managers, theater researcher and theoretician.
For the selection of 2025, 10 plays were submitted. The Committee selected the following plays:
★ “Въглерод” (Carbonio /CARBON) от Пиер Лоренцо Писано, превод от италиански Киара Роси # by Pier Lorenzo Pisano, translated from Italian by Chiarra Rossi
★ “Нашият син” ( Naš sin / Our Son) от Патрик Лазич, превод от сръбски Иван Панайотов # by Patrick Lazic, translated from Serbian by Ivan Panayotov
★ “Аляска” (Alaska / Alaska) от Елизе Вилк, превод от румънски Лора Ненковска # by Elise Wilk, translated from Romanian by Lora Nenkovska
Brief presentation of the plays and their authors and translators in Bulgarian and English:
https://eurodram-bulgarian.weebly.com/2025.html
All selected plays were presented at the fourteenth edition of ProText platform. The plays were presented in a special performance-reading format developed by ProText, in the spaces of National Theatre ‘Ivan Vazov’, Toplocentrala and for the second time a play from the committee’s selection was presented outside the capital, at the Municipal Theatre ‘Lyubomir Kabakchiev’ – in Kazanlak.
Brief presentation of the ProText in Bulgarian and English:
https://eurodram-bulgarian.weebly.com/protext-14.html
In 2025 were carried out four interviews with authors, translators and directors from the EURODRAM selections 2025 (in Bulgarian).
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6ahgqWFA9cituLk8aa05mp1yHyFUoQq7&si=qAAd_SaFrkmTl-8b
Català / Catalan
The Catalan committee, coordinated by Sala Beckett/Obrador Internacional de Dramatúrgia, is currently formed by 7 members. This year some of the members have resigned or have asked to be replaced by someone else, so this is the last year of this committee.
In 2025 the 3 selected plays translated from other languages into Catalan were:
-Retrat de l’artista mort (Espanya ’39 – Argentina ’78) [Ritratto dell’artista da morto (Germania ’41 – Argentina ’78)] [Portrait of the Dead Artist (Germany ’41 – Argentina ’78)] by Davide Carnevali, translated from Italian by Anna Crespo Palomar
-Tots ocells [Tous des oiseaux] [All Birds] by Wajdi Mouawad, translated from French by Cristina Genebat
-Cacophony [Cacophony] by Molly Taylor, translated from English by Oriol Puig Grau and Anna Serrano Gatell
–El gos [The dog] by Lluïsa Cunillé has been translated into Galician by Alfonso Becerra and into Bulgarian by Neva Mícheva.
–Austràlia [Australia] by Israel Solà has been translated into Spanish by the author himself and is currently being translated into Greek by Maria Chatziemmanoui.
The Czech committee has established itself this summer. It has six members including the coordinator Kristina Žantovská. We are dramaturgs actively working in the theatre and translators involved in German, Italian, Russian and Spanish languages.
We announced the Open call for plays in original language in September. On the webside of Prague City Theatres, where two of us are currently working, we created a page covering the Eurodram and the Open call as well.
Right now is the most important for us to make – Eurodram as itself – more visible and attractive for the recognised and starting playwrights. Eurodram has not got any recognition among the theatre professionals till now. We hope we’ll succeed.
Cymraeg / Welsh
In 2025 the committee worked with Literature Across Frontiers and Theatr Cymru to create translations into English of the three Welsh plays we selected in 2024.
- Parti Priodas (Wedding Party) by Gruffydd Owen
- Croendena (Thin-Skinned) by Mared Llywelyn Williams
- Imrie by Nia Morais
All plays were translated by their authors following workshops and support from both organisations.
No translations into Welsh were selected this year.
The German-speaking committee EURODRAM is since January 6, 2025 a non-profit, registered association. EURODRAM: Verein für Theater und Übersetzung e.V. [EURODRAM: Association for Theatre and Translation e.V.] and has two email addresses, that are connected with our domain: https://eurodram.de/
Email for the annual competition: auswahl@eurodram.de
For all other matters: info@eurodram.de
Post address: Verein für Theater und Übersetzung e.V., Großbeerenstraße 17, 10963 Berlin, Germany
Members
The German-speaking Eurodram committee currently has 22 members: https://eurodram.de/about/
Coordination
Members of the coordinator team are Elisabeth Schuster (dr.phil.elisabethschuster@gmail.com and Ana Ristoska Trpenoska (ana.ristoska.trpenoska@gmail.com).
Board members of the german committee: Charlotte Bomy (charlotte.bomy@drama-panorama.com), Blažena Radas (blazenaradas@yahoo.com), Elisabeth Schuster, Ana Ristoska Trpenoska and Andreas Volk (vvolkand@hotmail.com).
Membership in other networks
Zentrum Bundesrepublik Deutschland des Internationalen Theaterinstituts e. V (ITI Germany):
https://www.iti-germany.de/home
Selection 2025
The plays we selected are:
Marius Ivaškevičius, Götterspiel – Theatrale Untersuchung eines Kriegsverbrechens [Voskhod bogov / Восход богов / Rise of the Gods], Vilnius 2022; Translation from Russian by Ruth Altenhofer, Johanna Marx und Claudia Zecher, Wien und Groß Gerungs 2024
Tomáš Ráliš, Sorex [Sorex / Sorex], Prag 2020, Translation from Czech by Maira Neubert, Berlin 2023
Hadar Galron, Pfeifen [שריקה / Whistle], Tel Aviv 2018, Translation from Hebrew by Matthias Naumann, Berlin 2023
2025: https://eurodram.de/
More information about the plays in German/English:
Info Marius Ivaškevičius, Rise of the Gods
https://eurodram.de/2025/04/27/info-marius-marius-ivaskevicius-goetterspiel-theatrale-untersuchung-eines-kriesverbrechens-uebersetzt-von-ruth-altenhofer-johanna-marx-claudia-zecher/
Info Tomáš Ráliš, Sorex
https://eurodram.de/2025/04/27/info-tomas-ralis-sorex-uebersetzt-von-maira-neubert/
Info Hadar Galron, Whistle https://eurodram.de/2025/04/28/info-hadar-galron-pfeifen-uebersetzt-von-matthias-naumann/
Staged readings of the selection 2025:
-Dramatists’ Festival Graz (DramatikerInnenfestival Graz), 14.06.2025:
Report: https://eurodram.de/2025/08/04/drama-walks-dramatikerinnen-festival-graz/
-Stage readings coming soon: Theatre House G7 (Theaterhaus G7) Mannheim (Festival STÜCK FÜR STÜCK), 14. – 16.11.2025: https://theaterhausg7.de/stueck-fuer-stueck/
Interviews
We made interviews with the playwrights and the translators of the selection 2025:
– Marius Ivaškevičius (playwright), Ruth Altenhofer, Johanna Marx und Claudia Zecher (translators)
– Tomáš Ráliš (playwright) – soon available on our homepage
– Hadar Galron (playwright), Matthias Naumann (translator):
Translations of the previous selection (2024):
– The play Ave Joost by Caren Jeß (Selection 2024) was translated into French by Wolfgang Barth and Nicole Desjardins and was included in the program of the French theatre publisher „L’ARCHE éditeur & agence théâtrale“.
– The play Anorexia Feelgood-Songs by Fayer Koch (Selection 2024) was translated into Macedonian by Ana Ristoska Trpenoska, and an excerpt will be published in the Macedonian literary magazine ЕЛЕМЕНТИ (www.elementi.mk) by the end of this year.
Institutional partnerships:
We have established a long -term institutional partnership with the Dramatists’ Festival in Graz, Austria and with Theaterhaus G7 (Stück für Stück Festival) Mannheim, Germany, where the selected plays are presented as staged readings each year.
https://www2.dramatikerinnenfestival.at/2025
https://theaterhausg7.de/stueck-fuer-stueck/
Link to the committee’s website
Link to the committee’s social media profile
https://www.facebook.com/p/Eurodram-Deutschsprachiges-Komitee-100064522278404/
Ελληνικά / Greek
In 2025, the Greek committee of Eurodram appointed new coordinators, Maria Athini and Theoni Dede, with former coordinator Andreas Flourakis continuing as a member of the committee and providing ongoing support. During this period, the committee expanded its membership by inviting new participants, including academics, translators, writers, and specialists in theatre studies. For the upcoming General Assembly to be held in Lyon in October 2025, Professor Eleni Gkini of the Open University of Cyprus was designated as the committee’s representative.
The committee signed two three-year memoranda of understanding with the University of the Peloponnese and with the drama organisation Analogio Festival, while two further memoranda with the Hellenic Open University and the Open University of Cyprus are currently in progress. Areas of collaboration include student involvement in selection committees and the translation of plays as part of their thesis or coursework; staged readings and performances involving students but also actors, directors, or dramaturgs – these events may form part of Eurodram’s annual festival or be organized as separate cultural activities in Athens, Nafplio or Cyprus or in any place where there is a greek-speaking audience; joint offer of seminars and workshops on playwriting, translation, and directing, either in person or online; and mutual promotion of activities through websites, social media, and printed material.
In collaboration with Cyprus, the Greek committee seeks to promote cultural exchange and showcase contemporary Greek-language playwriting within the Eurodram network. In addition, the committee updated its online platforms and reactivated the blog newriters with the aim of promoting emerging playwrights and presenting their work for translation.
For the 2026 selection the members of the committee are:
Coordinators
Athini Maria, author, Journalist
Theoni Dede, author, Poet
Newly recruited committee members:
Spyropoulou Aggeliki, Professor-University of Peloponnese
Markantonatos Andreas, Professor-Open University Greece & University of Peloponnese
Gkini Eleni, Professor-Open University Cyprus
Kosmopoulou Despoina, Lecturer-Open University Greece
Zhako Eleana, Translator [Shquipja/Albanian]
Zervas Helene, Translator [French]
Emmanuela Lia, Actor and Translator [English]
Karantzas Menelaos, Director, Dramaturg, Translator [English]
Passari Maritina, Director and Author
Michailidi Eleftheria (Gigi, Writer, Playwright
Continuing Members:
Flourakis Andreas, Author
Volkovitch Michel, Τranslator [French]
Mitsakou Eleni , Author and Translator [French]
Liakopoulou Vicky, Theatre Studies, and Translator [French]
Tsogia Dora, Author and Translator [English]
Alexakis Dimitris, Director
Kourneta Eleni , Drama practitioner/Theatre Studies
Boumpourakas Panagiotis-Alexandros, Theatre Studies
Spanou Kyriaki , Director
35 members of the English-language Committee selected the following plays from 63 plays submitted:
★ The Geometry of Wheat (La geometría del trigo), by Alberto Conejero, translated from Castilian by Michael Grundmann and Clara Ministral
★ Little Beast (Piccola Bestia), by Tobia Rossi, translated from Italian by Caterina Nonis
★ Strawberry Fields (Mansikkapaikka), by Sofi Oksanen, translated from Finnish by Owen F. Witesman
This year for the first time, we are delighted to have collaborated with the online journal of theatrical translation The Mercurian, to publish a Eurodram special issue. The issue contains two of the selected plays, as well as a number of other submitted plays that members of the Committee found exciting. You can download that issue as a PDF here, or read it online here.
The Estonian-speaking committee EURODRAM has been operating since 2023 and it has four members including translators and playwrights and a coordinator Liisi Aibel (Estonian Theatre Agency, Board Member & International relations specialist, Tallinn): liisi@teater.ee
For the 2025 Honours – selection of translated texts, committee selected three translations that have already been performed in Estonian theatres:
★ Kolmekas ilma Simoneta (Dreier ohne Simone / Threesome Without Simone, 1999), by Kristo Šagor, translated from German by Eili Heinmets
★ Kahe laine vahel (Between Two Waves, 2012), by Jan Meadows, translated from English by Erkki Sivonen
★ ≈ [peaaegu võrdsed] (≈ [ungefär lika med] / ≈ [Almost Equal To], 2015), by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, translated from Swedish by Maarja Aaloe
We are spreading information about the Eurodram selections among Estonian theatre professionals through the Estonian Theatre Agency newsletter and website. A public competition for the selection of original works for 2026 is currently open.
The Estonian-speaking committee is affiliated with the Estonian Theatre Agency and its activities which include: the development and promotion of dramaturgy, the organization of playwriting competitions, the management of translation and copyright matters, the publication of books, and the collection of theatre statistics. In 2025, four volumes of translated plays were published in collaboration with committee, in French, English, Latvian, and Romanian:
- French publishing house Parlatges published a French translation of Mehis Pihla’s play Business as Usual (“La Grande Lessive”, “Rahamaa” in Estonian) in its series “Éditions l’Espace d’un instant”, translated by Martin Carayol. The play features a foreword by the Estonian journalist Holger Roonemaa. The publication was supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.
- The first collection of Estonian plays in Romanian, Dramaturgie estonă contemporană (Contemporary Estonian Drama), was published in Romania. The collection was compiled and translated by Raluca Rădulescu and published by Teatrul azi, Romania’s most important publishing house dedicated to drama. The collection contains four plays: Jaan Tätte’s Highway Crossing or A Tale of a Golden Fish (1997), Mihkel Ulman’s Way to the Wardrobe (2000), Diana Leesalu and Kaarel B. Väljamäe’s Dashes on the Doorhandle (2017), Mehis Pihla’s Business as Usual (2024). The publication was supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.
- The collection of Estonian contemporary plays in Latvian Igauņu mūsdienu lugu izlase, was presented at the Estonian Embassy in Riga. The collection, compiled and translated by Daila Ozola, includes Andrus Kivirähk’s comedy Fatherland Swallows (2018), Tiit Aleksejev’s historical drama Livonian Requiem (2020), Piret Jaaks’ documentary play Same Words, Another Tune (2021), Mehis Pihla’s grotesque, ironic and daring tragicomedy Bладь и Mirъ (2019), Heneliis Notton’s youth drama Emesis (2021), Paavo Piik’s absurd and witty Out of your Depth (2022) and Siret Campbell’s subtle psychological drama of the future Beatrice (2017). The afterword is written by Heidi Aadma. The publication was supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.
- An English-language collection of Estonian plays was published as part of the Gothenburg Book Fair entitled Read Me, Love Me, Play Me! Five Estonian Plays from 1911 to 2020. The collection of contains English translations of the following plays: Ivar Põllu’s Past Continuous (2020), translated by Maarja Mänd, Piret Jaaks’ Rites of Passage (2019), translated by Adam Cullen, Martin Algus’ Something Real (2017), translated by Adam Cullen, Jaan Tätte’s Highway Crossing or The Tale of a Golden Fish (1997), translated by Krista Kaer, edited by Arthur Kincaid, August Kitzberg’s The Werewolf (1911), translated by Merike Lepasaar. The compilers and editors of the collection are Heidi Aadma and Liisi Aibel, the language editors are Dan O’Connell and Arthur Kincaid, and the designer is Indrek Sirkel. The afterword to the book was written by Sven Karja and translated by Kaur Sinissaar. The publication was supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.
The committee has kept on being coordinated by Joëlle Chambon, with the help of Gilles Boulan and Dominique Dolmieu.
It gathered 31 members (21 women and 10 men), including 8 translators (related to Castillan, German and Italian) as well as theater professionals (playwrights, actors, directors), scholars and a publisher. Most of them fully participated to the readings and the final selection.
For the last session the committee received 64 texts translated from 20 languages. Each text has been read at least by 3 members. Then a short list of 11 texts has been drafted and read by every voting member. In the end, an online meeting was held to decide the final choice. Selected playwrights have been invited to join the committee for the session coming afterwards.
The French committee has created an official NGO to be able to ask for grants. It should be established in Lyon in the coming times.
More info about selected texts :
http://eurodram.fr/selection-2025-le-futur-helena-tornero/
http://eurodram.fr/selection-2025-finist-le-clair-faucon-svetlana-petriitchouk/
http://eurodram.fr/selection-2025-le-puits-des-amours-mortes-howard-barker/
Հայերեն / Armenian
The Armenian committee was restructured in September 2025, and we proceeded with the selection and appointment of its new members. Following this, we launched the call for submissions, which has already generated considerable interest. We are now awaiting the closing date in order to review the submitted works and officially announce the results.
The Italian committee in 2025 didn’t make any selection. Michele Panella and Ornella Rosato and Cesare D’Arco from Theatron 2.0 are the referents of the committee. There has been changes in the jury, which consist in at least 12 members. We launched the selection for 2026.
Қазақ / Kazakh
In 2025, the Kazakh Committee consists of 4 members (2 men, 2 women) – including 1 playwright and 3 theatre critics.
Our email for plays: festival@drama.kz
Email for other matters: masterdramaturg@gmail.com
For the selection of 2025 24 plays were submitted. The Committee selected the following plays:
- The Ugly One, «Құбыжық» (Der Hässliche, 2007) by Marius von Mayenburg, translated from German by Alibek Baibol
- Iran Conference, «Иран конференциясы» (Иранская конференция, 2017) by Ivan Vyrypaev, translated from Russian by Alisher Rakhat
- The Fall of Peppa Pig, «Шошқа Пеппенің күнәсі» (Грехопадение свинки Пеппа, 2021) by Nuraina Satpayeva, translated from Russian by Aizharyk Sultankozha
The main platform for presenting plays in Kazakhstan is the Drama.KZ festival of contemporary Kazakh drama, which is held annually:
The festival was not held in 2025; it is scheduled for April 2026. We hope to present the winners at this festival.
Some thoughts after the selection process:
– 80 percent of plays, even European ones, are first translated into Russian, and then translators from Kazakhstan take them and translate them into Kazakh. There is a shortage of direct translations from European languages directly into Kazakh—and this has been a long-standing problem, since this was how the translation system was initially structured during Soviet times, when Russian was the lingua franca in the USSR.
– As a consequence of the Soviet translation system, there are very few local translators in Europe and around the world who know Kazakh and are willing to translate from Kazakh into European languages. Russian is always present as a buffer.
– Playwrights and writers, rather than professional translators, most often act as translators of plays. This is because professional translators in Kazakhstan primarily focus on prose and poetry, paying less attention to contemporary drama.
Magyar / Hungarian
The Hungarian committee of Eurodram consists of 8 people: translators, dramaturgs, directors, an assistant director and an actor (http://eurodram.org/magyar-bizottsag-eurodram/)
The committee published a new call for plays translated into Hungarian in October 2024.
The Hungarian committee has received 8 plays translated into Hungarian.
A Győzelem napja (День победы/Victory Day), by Mikhail Durnenkov, translated from Russian by Zsuzsa Hetényi
Csak egy méter távolság (Sólo un metro de distancia /Just a meter away), by Antonio C. Guijosa, translated from Spanish (Castilian) by Katalin Jankovics
Sodródás (Driftwood), by Tim Foley, translated from English (UK) by Orsolya Bagi
(https://cief-efk.elte.hu/content/eurodram.c2c.1504?m=5579)
Dramatized reading of Hungarian selection
On 16th November: Sodródás (Driftwood), by Tim Foley, translated from English (UK) by Orsolya Bagi, directed by Klaudia Gardenö. (https://www.orkenyszinhaz.hu/eloadas/sodrodas-felolvasoszinhaz)
On 23rd November: A Győzelem napja (День победы/Victory Day), by Mikhail Durnenkov, translated from Russian by Zsuzsa Hetényi, directed by Bence Benkó. (https://orkenyszinhaz.hu/jegyvasarlas/eloadas/4970/a-gyozelem-napja)
On 30th November: Csak egy méter távolság (Sólo un metro de distancia /Just a meter away), by Antonio C. Guijosa, translated from Spanish (Castilian) by Katalin Jankovics, directed by Zita Szenteczki. (https://orkenyszinhaz.hu/jegyvasarlas/eloadas/4971/csak-egy-meter-tavolsag–felolvaso-szinhaz-)
Mакедонски / Macedonian
The Macedonian committee of EURODRAM includes 5 members; coordinated by Ivan Dodovski; Facebook page: https://m.facebook.com/eurodram.mk/
Selection: In 2025 the Macedonian committee had a call and received 20 translated plays from 8 languages (5 from Serbian, 4 from Slovenian, 3 from Romanian, 3 from Croatian, 2 from Polish, and 1 from Bulgarian, Italian and English); as usual, three were selected:
★ Место наречено Негде (Място, наречено Другаде / Place Called Elsewhere), by Yana Borisova, translated from Bulgarian by Katerina Markoska
★ Преподобните (Wielebni / The Reverends), by Sławomir Mrożek, translated from Polish by Filip Dimevski
★ Не ја држи линијата зафатена (Nu mai ține linia ocupată / Don’t Keep the Line Busy), by Alexandra Felseghi, translated from Romanian by Ermis Lafazanovski
Activities: On 10 June 2025, certificates were awarded to the translators of the 2025 selected plays at a special event organised within the programme of the Macedonian Theatre Festival Vojdan Chernodrinski in Prilep. On this occasion, excerpts were read from the translated plays, followed by a brief discussion. The anthology of contemporary Romanian plays published in Macedonian by Perun Artis Publisher has been also presented at the event. Also, three members of the Macedonian committee, Ivan Dodovski, Katarina Kocevska and Darko Jan Spasov, have attended the Eurodram General Assembly meeting in Lyon, 22-26 October 2025.
The Norwegian Committee is still young, but is preparing its fifth selection of plays. And has grown to 11 members, three of them being Members of Honour for specific reasons. Two of the members were recruited over the last year. So the committee has become stable and consistent. It has not yet got a legal body or any website, waiting for the right moment and opportunities to create and establish those. And has not been able so far to organise public readings of the selected plays. The committee is working on the preparation of organising the GA of Eurodram in Norway in 2027. Contacts have been made, as well as meetings held in order to structure the event the best way, and to receive the coordinators and other participants.
The Committee is currently in conversation with the theatrical magazine Dialog about the possibility of publishing the yearly winning plays and translations.
For the coming year, the Committee plans to begin developing a network of theatres, translation programs, and other relevant partners in Poland and beyond in order to strengthen collaboration and organize public readings, performances, and translation opportunities for students.
Efforts will also be made to recruit new members representing diverse professional profiles and experiences.
For the last competition, the Committee received 11 plays translated into Polish, of which three were selected:
- Pomiot (Отродье / Scump), by Esther Bol, translated from Russian by Krzysztof Tyczko
- To nie jest spektakl o twojej urodzie (Ovo nije predstava o tvojoj ljepoti / This is not a performance about your beauty), by Ivana Sajko, translated from Croatian by Gabriela Abrasowicz
- Na prowincji (Ääremaal / On the periphery), by Urmas Lennuk, translated from Estonian by Marta Perlikiewicz
The Committee currently has six members:
Coordinator: Aurelia Klimkiewicz
Committee Members:
- Karolina Czerska – Assistant Professor at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, translator from French to Polish
- Sabra Daici – Translator from Polish to Romanian
- Hendrik Lindepuu – Translator from Polish to Estonian, editor and publisher of Polish literature in Estonia
- Mariola Odzimkowska – Translator from Polish to French and from French to Polish, theatrologist
- Piotr Olkusz – Editor of the theatrical magazine Dialog, lecturer at the University of Łódź, theatre critic, translator from French to Polish
Română / Romanian
The Romanian committee changed its team in 2025. It consists of 12 members and one new coordinator. (7 women, 6 men).
Coordinator:
Alexandru Ivănoiu is a Romanian based actor, playwright and cultural manager.
Committee:
Eduard Burghelea is a Romanian actor, cultural manager and film director.
Codruța Cadar is a Romanian playwright and literary council.
Ovidiu Caița is a Romanian theatre director. Artistic director of Satu Mare Theatre and professor at Târgu Mureș Theatrical Arts University.
Irina Crăiță-Mândră is a Romanian theatre director and artistic consultant of Bacovia Theatre, with expertise in communication of cultural works.
Vangelis Doukoutselis is a Greek-Romanian actor, author, translator and lyricist.
Catinca Drăgănescu is a Romanian based theatre director and playwright, currently manager of Masca Theatre in Bucharest.
Jarmila Horáková is a translator of Romanian and Polish literature into Czech language and a lecturer in Romanian literature and culture at Charles University in Prague.
Jozefina Komporaly is a London-based literary translator from Romanian and Hungarian into English, and Reader in Performance at the University of the Arts London.
Andrei (Tiberiu) Măjeri is a Romanian theatre director and playwright.
Mihaela Michailov is a Romanian playwright, teacher of Dramatic Writing at UNATC I.L. Caragiale Bucharest and co-founder of Replika Center of Educational Theater.
Roberto Merlo is a university professor of Romanian Language and Literature at the University of Turin (Italy) and a theatre translator from Romanian into Italian.
Mirella Patureau is a research associate at THALIM/CNRS, theatre critic, translator, and a member of SACD (Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers) and AICT (International Association of Theatre Critics).
Selected and previously translated playwrights are now part of it.
Here are the playwrights translated from romanian:
★ Не ја држи линијата зафатена (Nu mai ține linia ocupată / Don’t Keep the Line Busy), by Alexandra Felseghi, translated from Romanian by Ermis Lafazanovski
★ Din müəllimi (Profu` de religie / Religion Teacher), by Mihaela Michailov, translated from Romanian by Jala Ismayil
★ Аляска (Alaska), by Elise Wilk, translated from Romanian by Lora Nenkovska
In addition, the Romanian open call is currently gathering plays.
More information here.
Русскоязычный / Russian
In 2025, the Russian-language Committee consists of 10 members (3 men, 7 women).
Our contact email: eurodram.ru@gmail.com
Ten members of the Russian-language Committee selected the following plays from the 23 plays` translations that were submitted:
★ Я ветер (Eg er vinden / I Am the Wind), by Jon Fosse, translated from Norwegian by Elena Rachinskaya
★ Террор (Terror), by Ferdinand Von Schirach, translated from German by Nataliya Bakshi
★ Другие люди (Inni ludzie / Other People), by Dorota Masłowska, translated from Polish by Alexey Krizhevskiy
The Russian-language Committee recruited the new reader and member Irina Kisielowa, Vienna, Austria. PhD in Philology (Russian Language and Slavic Languages), translator. Senior Lecturer at the Department of Slavic Studies, University of Vienna and University of Salzburg. https://kisielowa.com/
The Russian-language Committee created a database of established and early-career translators. It actively promoted EURODRAM calls to Russian-language playwrights and translators, resulting in 7 Russian-language play translations being selected by 6 language committees.
The committee maintains close contact with the Lubimovka Independent Playwriting Festival (https://lubimovka.art/), consults international academic and research projects focusing on Russian-language contemporary drama, and initiates research projects examining post-2022 developments in new drama and artists-in-exile practices.
The Albanian Committee actually consists of eleven members and a new member will be soon added in the official website, Enke Fezollari a well known Greek director and actor of Albanian origin, who joined our committee.
https://eurodram.org/komiteti-shqip-eurodram/
By the second half of this year the Committee was coordinated by Eleana Ziakou/Zhako, who succeeded the previous coordinator, Jeton Neziraj. In September 2025, the Albanian Eurodram Committee announced the Eurodram Call for Contemporary Original Plays 2025/2026.
https://qendra.org/eurodram-thirrje-e-hapur-per-drama-te-perkthyera-2025-2026/
The call is hosted by Qendra Multimedia directed by Jeton Neziraj, as we do not yet have our own website.
Slovenščina / Slovenian
In May 2025, following the initiative of the Eurodram Cabinet, a Slovenian Committee was established. https://www.slogi.si/eurodram/ These are its members:
- Tina Mahkota, translator from English and German into Slovenian, lecturer and publisher (coordinator),
- Alja Predan, translator from English, Croatian and Serbian into Slovenian, dramaturg and theatre scholar,
- Darko Jan Spasov, translator from English, Slovenian, Czech, Serbian and Croatian into Macedonian, dramaturg, director of the theatre Teatar Komedija in Skopje,
- Julija Potrč Šavli, translator from Finnish, Estonian and English into Slovenian,
- Gašper Troha, PhD, researcher and director of the Slovenian Theatre Institute (SLOGI).
On September 23, 2025, the Slovenian Eurodram Committee announced the Eurodram Call for Contemporary Original Plays 2025/2026. The deadline for submissions is December 21, 2025. In October 2025 the Slovenian Eurodram Committee will be represented at the Eurodram General Assembly in Lyon for the first time.
Suomi / Finnish
This year the Finnish language committee has selected three plays:
Kuten kaikki muutkin vapaat tytöt (Kao i sve slobodne djevojke / All Adventurous Women Do) Author: Tanja Šljivar Translated from Serbian by Hulda Tepponen
Nouseva kaupunki (La città che sale / The City Rises) Authors: Chiara Boscaro and Marco Di Stefano Translated from Italian by Niklas Nurminen
Kosovolaisen kyynikon kirjoittama näytelmä, jossa on neljä näyttelijää, joitakin sikoja, joitakin lehmiä, joitakin hevosia, pääministeri, ja Milka-lehmä ja joitain paikallisia ja kansainvälisiä tarkastajia (Një shfaqje teatri me 4 aktorë me disa derra me disa lopë me disa kuaj me një kryeministër me një milka e me disa inspektorë vendës e ndërkombëtarë / A play with four actors and some pigs and some cows and some horses and a prime minister and a milka cow and some local and international inspectors) Author: Jeton Neziraj Translated from Albanian by Fikrete Miftari and Katariina Alander
Tanja Šljivar’s Kuten kaikki muutkin vapaat tytöt and Jeton Neziraj’s Kosovolaisen kyynikon kirjoittama näytelmä… are featured in the Noidankehiä anthology, a joint publication by Teatterin Alkukirjasto and the READ Festival. This book is a significant contribution to bringing Eastern European plays to Finnish audiences.
We faced the same issue as in previous years: when it comes to translations, we receive no plays through our open call. Local agents are not interested in promoting translations abroad, and translators also seem reluctant to engage. As a result, we are struggling to involve more people in our network. Theatre translation is such a niche field that there are very few translators who specialize in it.
We also decided not to organize our yearly REA.D festival this time, due to a lack of new plays, limited time, and financial constraints. Unfortunately, our request within the network to share plays that had previously been translated for different committees received very little response. We would truly value closer collaboration with other committees—especially in exchanging knowledge, data, and plays.
Currently, the financial situation in the Finnish cultural field is quite difficult. New cuts on culture are to come also in 2026 despite the promises of the government. The good news is that the Finnish Cultural Foundation has introduced a translation and production grant for international plays, which has brought some fresh international drama into the otherwise stagnant Finnish theatre landscape. Strangely, however, our committee was not invited to be a partner in this project, which was coordinated by Theatre Info Finland.
About the project: https://www.tinfo.fi/en/World-on-Stage
Also to be mentioned the Gothenburg Book Fair had in the spot drama and the Finnish drama was strongly present at the fair: https://www.tinfo.fi/en/Nine-Finnish-Playwrights-Featured-at-Gothenburg-Book-Fair
The Ukrainian committee has 12 members including playwrights, translators, scientists; as well theater professionals, coordinated by Neda Nezhdana.
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076902732154
In 2025 the Ukrainian committee had a call and received 10 translated plays; 3 were selected:
★ Fourteen minutes of dance (Quatorze minutes de danse / Fourteen minutes of dance), by Sonia Ristic, translated from French by Maria Kovalenko
★ Katyn. The Theory of Colors (Katyń. Teoria barw / Katyn. The Theory of Colors), by Julia Holewińska, translated from Polish by Larysa Andriievska
★ Home (Дим), by Nicola McCartney, translated from English by Hanna Kyriienko, Oleksandra Vankevych, Olha Kovaliova, and Tetiana Savchynska
These plays were anounced at the Eurodram page and fb groups, sent to the theatres.
In December 2024 the Ukrainian Committee organised the Drama Festival « Avanscena-Eurodrama » in Kyiv with staged readings of contemporary original and translated plays in Ukrainian as well the discussion about the new drama with the participation of professionals and students writers, actors, directors, critics and journalists. This festival was a continuation of the project of the information collection and Internet library « Avanscena ».
The Organizers are the National center of the theatrical art Les Kurbas and the Kyiv Universities with literary and theatrical professions. These were readings of texts by Ukrainian winners of 2024 and foreign winners of 2023, as well as new translations.
The stage reading of the play « 14 Minutes of Dance » by Sonia Ristic translated from French by Maria Kovalenko selected in 2025 took place at the 1st Avanscena-Eurodrama festival.
Stage readings of selected plays ‘Katyn. Color Theory » by Julia Holewińska and “Home”, by Nicola McCartney are scheduled for the 2st Drama festival « Avanscena-Eurodrama » (December 6, 2025).
The selected plays of Eurodram-2024 were translated into English:
« Ghosts in the Branches » by Valery Puzik was translated by John Freedman, Natalia Bratus;
« Remember the future » by Oleksandr Viter was translated by John Farndon.
The play « Ghosts in the Branches » by Valery Puzik, had stage readings, including the Les Kurbas National center, the Ivan Franko National Theatre (Kyiv), the festival Drama Sprint (Kharkiv).
This play translated in English by John Freedman and Natalia Bratus, was published:
https://ukrdrama.ui.org.ua/files/texts/puzik_ghosts_in_branches_eng_freedman_bratus.pd f
The play « Ghosts in the Branches » and the information about the Eurodram were published in the anthology of Ukrainian plays – winners of various competitions « Drama-Panorama-2025 ».
An exhibition of paintings by Valery Puzik, created at the front, as he is a soldier, was presented at the art festival « Fever February 2014-2025 » in Kyiv, Les Kurbas center. A scientific article « War through the eyes of a warrior-artist » about the play « Ghosts in the Branches » and Valery Puzik’s work by Dr Olena Bondareva was published in the scientific journal « Kurbas Readings ».
https://kurbas.org.ua/projects/almanah19/03.pdf
The Ukrainian Committee continued to promote the anthology « Unnamed War », which 20 Ukrainian plays (including Ukrainian winners of Eurodram-2022 Andy Iva and Maryna Smilianetz, Eurodram-2024 – Oleksandr Viter, members of committee Anna Bagriana, Volodymyr Serduk).
https://kurbas.org.ua/news/nenazvana-viuna-2023/nenazvana-viuna.html
Two plays by the winners of the Eurodram 2024, « Ghosts in the Branches » by Valery Puzik and « Alice in the Land of the Ukrs » by Valentin Tarasov, prepared for publication in the anthology of historical and current drama « Crossed by Time », arranged by Oleg Mykolaychuk.
The anthology of plays « Breath of War » by literary students of Kyiv Shevchenko University was arranged by Maryana Shapoval. Publication of these books are scheduled for December 2025.
27 June 2025, “Science First Hand” Lecture on “Speaking Through Theatre: Ukrainian Voices of Resistance in Europe – Post-2022 Ukrainian War-Time Drama on European Stage ” by Dr. Iuliia Skybytska https://ukrainet.eu/2025/06/23/sfh-skybytska/
Iuliia Skybytska was proposed as the new coordinator of Ukrainian commitee.
Oleg Mykolaychuk and Maryana Shapoval were proposed as the new members of Ukrainian committe and assistants of the coordinator.
The Ukrainian Committee will announce the Open Call for original plays until January 15, 2026.
email: drama@i.ua
No report submitted / inactive committees:
Беларускi / Belarussian
BCHS (bosanski/crnogorski/hrvatski/srpski) / BCMS (Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian)
Castellano & Galego / Castilian & Galician
Dansk / Danish
עִבְרִית / Hebrew
Íslenska / Icelandic
ქართული ენა / Georgian
Kurdî / کوردی / Kurdish
Latviešu / Latvian
Lietuvių / Lithuanian
Nederlands / Dutch
Persian / فارسی
Português / Portuguese
Rromani
Slovenčina / Slovakian
Svenska / Swedish
(25/11/2025)