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Christina Bona Maria Tscharyiski is an Austrian-Bulgarian theatre director based in Vienna. She was born in Vienna on November 13, 1988, and began studying Theatre, Film and Media Studies as well as Sociology at the University of Vienna in 2007. From 2009, she worked as an assistant director on numerous theatre and opera productions, collaborating with directors such as Dimiter Gotscheff and Frank Castorf at venues including Rabenhof Theater, Theater in der Josefstadt, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Salzburg Festival, and Burgtheater. Since the 2013/14 season, she has been working as a freelance theatre director.
She has staged works by contemporary playwrights such as Elfriede Jelinek, Sibylle Berg, and Alice Birch. Longstanding collaborations with authors like Stefanie Sargnagel, Ferdinand Schmalz, and Gerhild Steinbuch are central to her artistic practice. A particularly close working relationship connects her with Rabenhof Theater since 2009.
Her production of Ja, eh! Beisl, Bier und Bachmannpreis by Stefanie Sargnagel was nominated for the Nestroy-Preis in 2018 and invited to the Heidelberg Stückemarkt and the Radikal Jung festival in Munich, where it won the Audience Award. The production was also presented at the Asphalt Festival in Düsseldorf and the Festival of Playwrights in Graz.
In 2019, Tscharyiski was again invited to Radikal Jung with Mar a Lago / Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. by Marlene Streeruwitz and Alice Birch, and the production was selected for the Nachtkritik Theatertreffen. In 2022, her staging of In den Gärten oder Lysistrata 2 by Sibylle Berg at Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus was invited to the Heidelberg Stückemarkt. Her production of Hildensaga. Ein Königinnendrama at Volkstheater Munich was awarded the AZ-Stern as Production of the Year 2022.
Further productions followed at Berliner Ensemble, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Burgtheater, Theater Freiburg, Landestheater Niederösterreich, Volkstheater Munich, Schauspielhaus Graz, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, and Rabenhof Theater. In summer 2022, she directed her first children’s opera at Salzburg Festival. She also teaches regularly at the Otto Falckenberg School, the Mozarteum, and the Max Reinhardt Seminar.
Christina Bona Maria Tscharyiski is an Austrian-Bulgarian theatre director based in Vienna. She was born in Vienna on November 13, 1988, and began studying Theatre, Film and Media Studies as well as Sociology at the University of Vienna in 2007. From 2009, she worked as an assistant director on numerous theatre and opera productions, collaborating with directors such as Dimiter Gotscheff and Frank Castorf at venues including Rabenhof Theater, Theater in der Josefstadt, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Salzburg Festival, and Burgtheater. Since the 2013/14 season, she has been working as a freelance theatre director.
She has staged works by contemporary playwrights such as Elfriede Jelinek, Sibylle Berg, and Alice Birch. Longstanding collaborations with authors like Stefanie Sargnagel, Ferdinand Schmalz, and Gerhild Steinbuch are central to her artistic practice. A particularly close working relationship connects her with Rabenhof Theater since 2009.
Her production of Ja, eh! Beisl, Bier und Bachmannpreis by Stefanie Sargnagel was nominated for the Nestroy-Preis in 2018 and invited to the Heidelberg Stückemarkt and the Radikal Jung festival in Munich, where it won the Audience Award. The production was also presented at the Asphalt Festival in Düsseldorf and the Festival of Playwrights in Graz.
In 2019, Tscharyiski was again invited to Radikal Jung with Mar a Lago / Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. by Marlene Streeruwitz and Alice Birch, and the production was selected for the Nachtkritik Theatertreffen. In 2022, her staging of In den Gärten oder Lysistrata 2 by Sibylle Berg at Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus was invited to the Heidelberg Stückemarkt. Her production of Hildensaga. Ein Königinnendrama at Volkstheater Munich was awarded the AZ-Stern as Production of the Year 2022.
Further productions followed at Berliner Ensemble, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Burgtheater, Theater Freiburg, Landestheater Niederösterreich, Volkstheater Munich, Schauspielhaus Graz, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, and Rabenhof Theater. In summer 2022, she directed her first children’s opera at Salzburg Festival. She also teaches regularly at the Otto Falckenberg School, the Mozarteum, and the Max Reinhardt Seminar.
