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Marina (Maka) Vasadze
Position:
Doctor of Arts, Theatrologist, member of the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC/AICT), Secretary of the Georgian Section.
Email:
vasadzemaka@gmail.com
She graduated from the Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgia State University.
In 2015, she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Arts.
She is an Associate Professor at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgia State University, where she lectures on the history of world theatre, as well as theatre criticism and theory. She is also the head of the World Theatre History department at the university.
Since 2007, Director of the university’s publishing house “Kentavri”;
Since 2005, founder and chairperson of the registered union “Culture” of theatre, culture, and art workers of Georgia;
From 2005 to 2009, the founder and editor of the newspaper “Culture”.
She has regularly published and continues to publish articles, essays, and reviews on contemporary theatre processes and issues in both international and Georgian journals and newspapers. She is the author, editor, and compiler-editor of several monographs, textbooks, and supplementary teaching materials. Publishes articles in Scopus-accredited scientific journals and electronic journals (India, Romania, Germany). In 2024-2025, she published articles in “Critical Stage” and “Deutsche internationale Zeitschrift für zeitgenössische Wissenschaft”. In 2025, she participated in the conference held within the framework of the Sibiu International Festival in Romania - International Platform of Doctoral Research in the Fields of Performing Arts and Cultural Management. Delegate and speaker at the international conference "Is Shakespeare Still our Contemporary? Rethinking the Bard in a World he Never Imagined" organized by IATC/AICT as part of the International Shakespeare Festival in Craiova in 2026.
She is often invited to be a member of the jury and commission of theater festivals in Georgia and abroad.
In 2022, she was awarded the prize for “Best Review of the Year” by the Georgian Theatrical Society’s annual competition.
In 2024, she was awarded the Valerian Gunia Prize by the Georgian Theatrical Society for her book “The Semiotics of Robert Sturua’s Theatrical Language”.
In 2015, she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Arts.
She is an Associate Professor at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgia State University, where she lectures on the history of world theatre, as well as theatre criticism and theory. She is also the head of the World Theatre History department at the university.
Since 2007, Director of the university’s publishing house “Kentavri”;
Since 2005, founder and chairperson of the registered union “Culture” of theatre, culture, and art workers of Georgia;
From 2005 to 2009, the founder and editor of the newspaper “Culture”.
She has regularly published and continues to publish articles, essays, and reviews on contemporary theatre processes and issues in both international and Georgian journals and newspapers. She is the author, editor, and compiler-editor of several monographs, textbooks, and supplementary teaching materials. Publishes articles in Scopus-accredited scientific journals and electronic journals (India, Romania, Germany). In 2024-2025, she published articles in “Critical Stage” and “Deutsche internationale Zeitschrift für zeitgenössische Wissenschaft”. In 2025, she participated in the conference held within the framework of the Sibiu International Festival in Romania - International Platform of Doctoral Research in the Fields of Performing Arts and Cultural Management. Delegate and speaker at the international conference "Is Shakespeare Still our Contemporary? Rethinking the Bard in a World he Never Imagined" organized by IATC/AICT as part of the International Shakespeare Festival in Craiova in 2026.
She is often invited to be a member of the jury and commission of theater festivals in Georgia and abroad.
In 2022, she was awarded the prize for “Best Review of the Year” by the Georgian Theatrical Society’s annual competition.
In 2024, she was awarded the Valerian Gunia Prize by the Georgian Theatrical Society for her book “The Semiotics of Robert Sturua’s Theatrical Language”.