Post Theatre Collective is a Helsinki-based platform for collective producing and learning of various contemporary art practices in relation to performing arts.

We are a group of arts professionals with international backgrounds and we produce multidisciplinary performances, installations, publications, events and organize workshops for different audiences. We organize READ, a yearly festival for reading drama and host New Theatre Helsinki, a platform for communities that are not represented on the Finnish institutional stage.

The collective was founded in 2007 and worked with the name European Theatre Collective until 2020. We came to acknowledge that our former name did not reflect our thoughts and multidisciplinary activities anymore. Our activities have grown beyond theatre and our members are becoming more diverse every day. We have gone beyond Theatre and beyond European. It’s time to go Post Theatre.

 

Post Theatre Collective on Helsingissä toimiva, kollektiivinen esittävän taiteen moninaisten praktiikoiden tuottamisen ja oppimisen alusta.

Olemme kansainvälinen ryhmä esittävän taiteen ammattilaisia. Tuotamme monialaisia esityksiä, installaatioita ja tapahtumia sekä järjestämme työpajoja erilaisille yleisöille. Järjestämme myös vuosittaista draaman lukemiselle omistettua READ-festivaalia ja isännöimme New Theatre Helsinki -hanketta, joka toimii alustana yhteisöille, jotka eivät ole edustettuina Suomen institutionaalisilla lavoilla.

Kollektiivi perustettiin 2007, ja se toimi vuoteen 2020 nimellä European Theatre Collective, kunnes tiedostimme, että vanha nimi ei enää kuvastanut ajatuksiamme ja monialaista toimintaamme. Olemme laajentaneet toimintaamme teatterikentän ulkopuolelle, ja jäsenistömme on jatkuvasti moninaisempaa. Olemme edenneet sekä teatteria että Eurooppaa pidemmälle. Uusi nimi kuvastaa tätä.

Members

  • David Kozma

    David Kozma is a Romanian-Hungarian actor, director and artistic director of the Post Theatre Collective. He works for film and TV productions, theatre, as well as applied theater particularly focused on the activities aimed at immigrants.

    In 2019, he co-founded New Theatre Helsinki, a platform for intercultural activities centered around performing arts and for the communities that are not represented on the Finnish institutional stage.

  • Bita Razavi

    Bita is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is centered around sociopolitical observations on everyday situations. Since 2021 Bita works on the program and content produced by the collective.

    Bita holds a master’s degree from the Finnish Academy of FIne Arts and has a background in classical music, and documentary film making. She was the recipient of Oskar Öflunds Foundation’s grand prize in 2017 and is selected to represent Estonia in 59th Venice Biennale.

  • Saku Kämäräinen

    Saku is a musician and a sound artist whose sound design works have been presented in Finland and internationally. He has performed in over hundred shows across Europe, United States and Canada. He has studied Sound in New Media at Aalto University, and Musicology at University of Helsinki.

    Saku has been working with the collective on numerous projects such as the second and third season of Middle Eastern Block and Collective’s upcoming musical Suomen Mestari.

  • Pietu Pietiäinen

    Pietu is a light designer based in Helsinki. He has an MFA from Finnish Theatre Academy, dept. of lighting & sound design VÄS. He has worked as a light designer for dozens of theater productions in Finland. He has worked as Lighting & video manager on the main stage of Finnish National Theatre.

  • Yuko Takeda

    Yuko is a Japanese actor and acting teacher based in Helsinki. She received a BFA in theatre at University of Central Oklahoma and an MFA in Acting at University of Arkansas-Fayetteville. She worked as an acting apprentice at Theatre of Louisville, and trained in Suzuki Method & Viewpoints with SITI Company.

  • Salla Kozma

    Salla Kozma is a Finnish actress. She graduated from the Russian Academy of Theater Arts, GITIS in 2004. She has appeared in many television series and film productions. Salla has worked with many productions of the European Theater Collective and the READ Festival as well as Valtimon teatteri.

  • Romulus Chiciuc

    Romulus C is a Romanian born Helsinki based artist. His background is in theatre, himself being an actor, but he has also studied music which he employs in his work today. His work evolves around theatre, in different ways such as acting, performing live, sound design or sound installations. He has been part of different projects with European Theatre Collective, Gnab Collective, Svenska teatern, Sivuvalo, Valtimonteatteri.

  • Ágnes Kaszás

    Ágnes Kaszás is a Hungarian actor and art & tech designer. She believes in innovative fusions. Fusion of immersive theatre, art & tech. She has directed immersive theatre shows, for example Escapetrain for VR (government-owned railway company in Finland) and brought escape game concept to Finland.

  • Anastasia Trizna

    Anastasia Trizna is a professional multilingual actor and singer based in Helsinki. She works in a diverse range of genres, including drama, musical, documentary, physical theatre, sight-specific performances, jazz concerts, and social and cross-disciplinary projects.

  • Piret Jaaks

    Piret Jaaks is an Estonian writer and playwright. She has graduated from University of Tartu and is a doctoral candidate at Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Piret has written several children's plays that were staged at Piip and Tuut Theatre in Tallinn.

  • Heidi Backström

    Heidi is a Helsinki based cultural producer whose artistic community is marked by openness, solidarity and equality. Heidi has been active with the production of our yearly reading drama festival R.E.A.D.

    Backström has participated in creating artistic communities in Helsinki and worked as a producer for the international literature festival Helsinki Lit, and is one of the original members of Mad House.

  • Mauri Aarniosuo

    Mauri works as Post Theatre Collective’s production assistant. They graduated as a Master of Social Sciences from the University of Helsinki with practical philosophy as major. Mauri has studied German, Russian, and ancient Greek and is in charge of our translations among other production matters.