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Larisa Faber was born in Romania during the Communist dictatorship. After the collapse of the Communist regime, she emigrated to Luxembourg, where she grew up. (In all fairness, she tagged along as she was still a potty user at the time.)

She trained in the U.K. at Drama Centre London and has an intense love-hate relationship with the aforementioned capital city.

Larisa is associate artist at neimënster, Luxembourg (2023-2026) and an award-winning writer/director. Her work has explored ageing, reproductive choices and migration. She loves odd humour and weird musicals. Larisa spoke to Caroline Gillet on France Inter‘s Foule Continentale about abortion access. Click here to listen.

Her plays have been performed in Luxembourg (neimënster, Théâtre d’Esch, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Mierscher Kulturhaus), Germany (Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe), Lithuania (Kaunas City Chambre Theatre, Vilnius Arts Printing House) and the U.K. (Camden People’s Theatre, VAULT Festival). Her show stark bollock naked was nominated for an Artists’ Choice Award at VAULT Festival London. Good Girls was awarded at the Kaunas City Theatre Awards and her short film If We Smarten Up won numerous awards including Best Short Film.

In 2020, Germany’s Bühne Magazin included Larisa in their “5 exciting female playwrights under 35 to watch”. Larisa is not under 35 anymore. Hopefully still exciting. Writing commissions include texts for Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Germany, and Centre National de Littérature, Luxembourg.

Larisa also works as an actor and is represented by Agentur Peter Fley in Cologne, Germany. Acting credits here.

 

 

 

 

 

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