Natalie Baudy
Germany
Natalie Baudy studied Theatre Studies and Musicology in Mainz, Paris and Berlin and Dramaturgy at the August Everding Theatre Academy in Munich. She has worked as a dramaturge and playwright at several German-language theatres. Her play Rauschen won the 2019 Chemnitz Theatre Prize for Young Playwriting. In 2023, fairycoin was selected for production at Theater Kosmos Bregenz through the Wiener Wortstätten Drama Lab.
Teodora Georgieva
Bulgaria
Teodora Georgieva holds degrees in Drama from the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts and in Pedagogy of Mass and Artistic Communication from Sofia University. She writes puppet and dramatic plays that have been presented at the Nikolay Binev Youth Theatre, Sfumato and puppet theatres in Pazardzhik, Yambol and Sliven. Her play Intermediate Zone was nominated for an Askeer Award for Contemporary Bulgarian Drama in 2023.
Silva Marinova
Bulgaria
Silva Marinova is a Bulgarian visual artist and writer trained in painting, book art and photography. She works across painting, applied arts, illustration, comics, children’s literature, prose and drama. Since completing a publishing course in 2017, she has written mainly fantasy and science fiction. Her work has appeared in literary series and anthologies, and she won first prize in the 2019 Agop Melkonyan Short Story Contest.
Tatjana Motta
Italy
Tatjana Motta studied Visual Arts and Theatre at IUAV University in Venice and Playwriting at the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi in Milan. Notte Bianca won the 55th Premio Riccione and has been translated and presented in the United States, Spain, France and Portugal. Her work has appeared at Romaeuropa Festival, Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, Teatro Stabile di Bolzano and Teatro i. She also writes for cinema and lives in Rome.
Alessandro Paschitto
Italy
Alessandro Paschitto graduated in directing from the Paolo Grassi School of Dramatic Arts in Milan in 2021. A playwright and director, he founded the company Ctrl+Alt+Canc and has developed productions with Teatro di Napoli – Teatro Nazionale and Campania Teatro Festival. His work has received numerous awards and selections, including Premio Nuove Sensibilità 2.0 and the In-Box Generation Award. He is featured in Nuova Scena Italiana nel Mondo.
Lena Riemer
Germany
Lena Riemer studied German and Sociology in Düsseldorf and Creative Writing at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig. Since 2026, she has studied Dramaturgy at the Ernst Busch University of Performing Arts. The play premiered at Theater am Werk in Vienna in April 2025, directed by Christine Eder, and received the 2025 Nestroy Theatre Prize for Best Emerging Talent. Her second play, unreif, was nominated for the 2025 Retzhofer Drama Prize.