For Life With an Idiot

A play by Viktor Erofeyev, directed by Ben Harrison at London’s Gate Theatre, featuring Tea Alagić as Masha. An absurdist allegory of Soviet oppression, the work examines authoritarian power, desire,…

Charming Augustine

A stereoscopic 16mm film by Zoe Beloff, starring Tea Alagić as Augustine. Inspired by a young woman exhibited as a “hysterical” patient at Paris’s Salpêtrière Hospital in the 1870s, the…

Sam’s Perspective

An original interdisciplinary performance created, written, directed, produced, and performed by Tea Alagić. Combining text, movement, and visual storytelling, the work explores identity, memory, and the ways we understand ourselves…

Chiang Kai-shek

An experimental play by Charles L. Mee, directed and performed by Tea Alagić in the 2004 Yale Cabaret production. Using the figure of Chiang Kai-shek, the work examines power, nationalism,…

The Ideoplastic, Materializations of Eva C

A four-channel stereoscopic installation created and directed by Zoe Beloff, with Tea Alagić starring as the French medium Eva C. The work reenacts early twentieth-century séances through performance, three-dimensional imagery,…

Cerebral Events

An original interdisciplinary performance written, conceived, directed, and performed by Tea Alagić, created with Sonja Rzepski and Paul Smithyman at Interart Theatre Annex in New York in 2003. Through text,…

Panic! (How To Be Happy!)

An experimental work written, directed, and designed by Richard Foreman, featuring Tea Alagić as Svetlana. Tea performed in the production at New York’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater and during its international engagements…

The Al-Hamlet Summit

Sulayman Al-Bassam’s contemporary reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, featuring Tea Alagić as Ophelia. Tea performed in the production at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Cairo International Festival for Experimental…

PI=3.14

An interdisciplinary dance-theater work conceived and directed by Yoshiko Chuma and created with Tea Alagić and the School of Hard Knocks. Tea Alagić performed in the 2002 production at La…

The Geometry of Miracles

A production created and directed by Robert Lepage with Ex Machina, featuring Tea Alagić as Jovana/Olgivanna Wright. Tea co-created and performed in the production from 1998 to 2000.

The Filament Cycle

A multimedia theater work created, written, directed, produced, and performed by Tea Alagić, created and performed with Thaddeus Phillips. Combining physical theater, video, puppetry, and original text, the work explores…

Men Have Called Me Mad

An ensemble performance inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s dark poetic world. Through physical theatre, movement, and poetic language, the work explores madness, imagination, isolation, love, death, and the uncertain boundary…

One Day in Moscow

One Day in Moscow transforms Bulgakov’s celebrated novel into a physical and imaginative theatrical work. Moving between political satire, fantasy, and romance, the production explores censorship, artistic freedom, love, faith,…

Kafka Amerika

Kafka’s Amerika follows Karl Rossmann, a young European immigrant sent to America, where he enters a surreal world of opportunity, exploitation, and shifting power. Kafka’s darkly comic story examines immigration,…

Nevena

A Czech television production starring Tea Alagić in the title role. Created during her professional acting training in Prague, the film marks an early screen performance in her international career.

Acting

Tea Alagić

Director · Writer · Actor · Producer
Associate Professor, School of Drama, MFA Program
The New School, College of Performing Arts

Charming Augustine

Role: Augustine
Director: Zoe Beloff
New York 2005

The Ideoplastic: Materializations of Eva C.

Role: Eva
Director: Zoe Beloff
New York 2004

Sam's Perspective

Performer
Written & Directed by Tea Alagić
Interart Theatre Annex — New York
2004

Panic (How to Be Happy)

Role: Svijetlana
Director: Richard Foreman
2003

Performed at:

  • Ontological-Hysteric Theater — New York
  • Zürich, Switzerland
  • Vienna, Austria

Cerebral Events

Performer
Written & Directed by Tea Alagić
Interart Theatre Annex — New York
2003

P = 3.14

Role: Tea Alagić
Director: Yoshiko Chuma
La MaMa E.T.C. — New York
2002

Al-Hamlet Summit

Role: Ophelia
Director: Sulayman Al-Bassam
2002

Performed at:

  • Edinburgh Fringe Festival
  • Cairo International Theatre Festival

The Filament Cycle

Performer
Created & Directed by Tea Alagić
2001

Premiered at La MaMa E.T.C. — New York

International Tour:

  • UNIDRAM Festival — Potsdam, Germany
  • Battersea Arts Centre — London
  • 4+4 Days in Motion Festival — Prague
  • Philadelphia Fringe Festival
  • Denver, Colorado
  • Additional venues throughout the United States and Europe

Life with an Idiot

Role: Masha
Director: Ben Harrison
Gate Theatre — London
2001

Digging for Miracles

Role: Tea Alagić
Canadian Television
2000

The Geometry of Miracles

Role: Olgivanna Wright (also credited as Jovana Wright)
Director: Robert Lepage
1998–2000

Performed at:

  • Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), New York
  • Toronto World Stage Festival
  • Salzburg Festival (Salzburger Festspiele)
  • Tramway Theatre, Glasgow
  • Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro, Bogotá
  • Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, Barcelona
  • Festival de Otoño, Madrid
  • Israel Festival, Jerusalem
  • Maison des Arts André Malraux, Créteil (Paris)
  • Le Manège Scène Nationale, Maubeuge
  • Singapore Arts Festival
  • Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
  • MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
  • Concert Hall, University of Minnesota
  • Iowa Center for the Arts
  • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

One Day in Moscow

Performer
Created & Directed by Tea Alagić

Performed at:

  • Mlejn Theatre — Prague
  • Stateless Theatre Company — New York

1998

Kafka's Amerika

Roles: Johanna • Teresa • Angel
Director: Patrick Kealy
Southwark Playhouse — London
1997

Men Have Called Me Mad

Performer
Created & Directed by Tea Alagić

Theatre Double

Performed at:

  • Philadelphia Fringe Festival

1997–1998

Nevena

Role: Nevena
Czech Television
1995

Love Story

Role: Anna
Czech Television
1995

L'Amfiparnaso

Role: Harlequin
Director: Ctibor Turba
Czech Television
1994

Artistic Director

Stateless Theatre Company

Founder • Artistic Director • Writer • Director • Producer • Actor
1998–2001

Founded and led Stateless Theatre Company, an experimental theatre company dedicated to original creation, devised performance, interdisciplinary practice, international collaboration, and international touring.

As Founder and Artistic Director, I conceived, wrote, directed, produced, and performed in all of the company's productions while leading the company's artistic vision, fundraising, institutional partnerships, and touring.

Original Productions

The Filament Cycle (2001)

Creator • Writer • Director • Producer • Performer

Premiered at La MaMa E.T.C., New York, followed by tours throughout the United States and Europe, including UNIDRAM Festival (Germany), Battersea Arts Centre (London), 4+4 Days in Motion Festival (Prague), Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and additional venues.

One Day in Moscow (1998)

Adapted from The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Creator • Writer • Director • Producer • Performer

Produced by Stateless Theatre Company.

Performed at Mlejn Theatre (Prague) and Stateless Theatre Company (New York).

Men Have Called Me Mad (1997–1998)

Adapted from the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe

Creator • Writer • Director • Producer • Performer

Produced by Theatre Double and presented at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

Additional Original Works

Cerebral Events (2003)

Writer • Director • Producer • Performer
Interart Theatre Annex — New York

Sam's Perspective (2004)

Writer • Director • Producer • Performer
Interart Theatre Annex — New York