Ruxandra SIMION

About the artist

Ruxandra Simion is a playwright and cultural manager based in Bucharest, Romania. Ruxandra uses satire, musical theatre, and community-engaged art to explore subjects such as climate change, labour, migration, housing issues, and the intersectionality between class and gender. Her work is multifaceted, encompassing writing and staging theatre plays, creating opera librettos and performative texts, developing dramaturgical and digital game scripts, and facilitating numerous workshops using Theatre of the Oppressed techniques.

Her latest work is in collaboration with Replika Theatre in Bucharest. She worked closely with a group of juvenile inmates at a Romanian Detention Center, using participatory theatre methods to explore the experiences of the inmates. Drawing on interviews conducted with them, Ruxandra is cowriting a play that sheds light on the detention system and its paradoxes for a show that will have the premiere in the winter of 2025. She also has curatorial and production experience, and, as the co-founder of Rhea, a platform for interdisciplinary artistic explorations, focused on the performing arts and cinematography production and innovation, she is engaged in the independent Romanian cultural sector as a cultural manager
and producer.

Discover more about the artist’s project and presentation here: Ruxandra Simion