Oana Cîrpanu

Oana Cîrpanu has been working as a theater educator at the GRIPS Theater since 2018 and heads the youth club Banda Agita. Under her artistic direction, productions with young people between the ages of 15 and 23 have been created every year since then, which have been performed several times at GRIPS Podewil in the respective seasons. Many productions have won multiple awards and been invited to festivals.
Since the 2023|2024 season, she has headed the theater education department together with Anna-Sophia Fritsche.

An overview of the youth club productions:

18/19: AUS.ZEIT 

19/20: Go, feel! - a cinematic dance theater: invited to the Rampenlichter Festival Munich and Tanztreffen der Jugend 2021

20/21: GENUG! Eine bewegte Stadterkundung: nominated for the Theatertreffen der Jugend 2022 and won the 2nd Berlin Prevention Award 2021

21/22: TRAU DICH - an interactive theater performance: invited to the Theatertreffen der Jugend 2023

22/23: All clear?!

23/24: HALT

Theater pedagogy in: Ankommen is WLAN (2018/19 and 2019/20), Romn*nja City-Stadt freier Menschen (2020/21), Ab heute heißt du Sara (2022/23), Bumm, Krach, Boing! (2023/24) 

Before that, she worked as a freelance theater educator, director and actress, mainly in Vienna and Zurich, including at the Volkstheater Vienna and the Junges Schauspielhaus Zurich. She studied educational science (B.A.) at the University of Vienna and theater pedagogy (M.A.) at the Berlin University of the Arts.     

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