CAT JUGRAVU
theater maker/lgbtqi+ activist/performer
Founder Queerdos kollektiv
08.03.1991
Berlin-Salzburg-Bucharest
catalin.jugravu@gmail.com
Education
2020 -2022 MA Applied Theatre: Artistic Practice and Society,Mozarteum Universität Salzburg Austria
2015 - 2014 Athanor Akademie/ Fachakademie für Darstellende Künst, Burghausen, Germany
2013 - 2010 BA Stage Acting,University of Theatre and Cinematography „I.L.CARAGIALE” Bucharest, Romania
Artistic Director/Founder Queerdos Kollektiv Berlin
2021
Diese Stück würde hier zerissen - active remebrance installation (1938 Kristallnacht), Salzburg
Als Alle Ohren Hören konnten - active remembrance audio installation (Rom*nja u. Sinti*zzeForced Labour Camp) Maxglan
dramaqueer public reading - Salon zur Wilde Renate, Berlin
Nebenwirkungen - expert theatre project, Mozarteum University, Salzburg AT
2020
Queerdos Violence - Verlängertes Wohnzimmer Theatre Berlin
Queerdos StoryTime - Polyphony MONOPOL Berlin
2019
Queerdos Resistance - Auróra, Budapest HU
Queerdos Unapologetic - An der Autobahn, Berlin
Queerdos Reunited - An der Autobahn, Berlin
2018
"...a work in progress" - performance-installation, Lite-HAUS Gallery, Berlin
Activist/CommunityBuilder/Demo-organiser
Lectures/Conferences as Speaker on Trans/LGBQIA+Visibility
Performance artist
2020
Transvision #4 & #5 - The Ballery, Berlin
Marjja Zezë - spoken-word performance, The Ballery Berlin
DISCOnstruction - spoken-word performance, project room 145 Berlin
O problemă de dragoste nu mă lasă să dorm - duet by/with Zhenya Salinschi, Queer Voices Festival Kishinev, Moldova
2019
A Closet Full of Skeletons - drag performance, concept Ariel Nil Levy / Fabió M Silva
The Force of Cher Nobyl - drag performance, Club Nature Paris, France
2018
LaleleLalele - Active Art performance, directed by Bogdan Georgescu, Macaz Bucharest RO
Gruesome Manifesto with Cher Nobyl - drag performance, English Theatre Berlin, Apollo 111 Bucharest, Brighton Fringe Festival UK Queer Voices Festival, Moldova
...and Björk - drag performance, SO36 Berlin
Athanatizéin - solo dance performance, Arena Club, Berlin
2017
StagingAnxiety - performance installation dir. Marijn Ottenhof, Nieuw Dakota Museum, AmsterdamNL
Pedicula - opera performance dir.Leila Hekmat/Mia von Matt,Eden Eden Gallerie Berlin
Strange - solo dance performance, TheaterHaus Mitte Berlin
Theatre Acting
2018 Liberté - Volksbühne Berlin, as Catalin, r. Albert Serra
2015 The New Electric Ballroom (Enda Walsh) - Athanor Academy Burghausen, as Leander, dir.Theresa Reuben
2013 Năpasta Ion Luca Caragiale - National Theatre Bucharest, dir. Radu Afrim
Jacques or the Obedience Eugene Ionesco - UNATC Bucharest, as Jacques, dir. Laura Vlad
Equus Peter Shaffer - Nottara Theatre / Odeon Theatre Bucharest, as Alan Strang, dir. Geanina Hergheligiu
Almost, Maine John Cariani - Mignon Theatre Bucharest, as Pete / Dave, dir. Andreea Vulpe
- Concept development and artistic direction
- Organizing actions and activities for LGBTQIA+ citizens (demos, community meetings, etc.)
- Development / facilitation of workshops
- Building / maintaining partnerships with LGBTQIA+ NGOs
2021
Diese Stück würde hier zerissen - active remebrance installation (1938 Kristallnacht), Salzburg
Als Alle Ohren Hören konnten - active remembrance audio installation (Rom*nja u. Sinti*zzeForced Labour Camp) Maxglan
dramaqueer public reading - Salon zur Wilde Renate, Berlin
Nebenwirkungen - expert theatre project, Mozarteum University, Salzburg AT
2020
Queerdos Violence - Verlängertes Wohnzimmer Theatre Berlin
Queerdos StoryTime - Polyphony MONOPOL Berlin
2019
Queerdos Resistance - Auróra, Budapest HU
Queerdos Unapologetic - An der Autobahn, Berlin
Queerdos Reunited - An der Autobahn, Berlin
2018
"...a work in progress" - performance-installation, Lite-HAUS Gallery, Berlin
Activist/CommunityBuilder/Demo-organiser
- Transgender Day of Remembrance - event organiser
- Speaker for Szczecin Pride September 2021
- Speaker for Hungarian Queer State Foundation Demo August 2021
- Pristina Pride, Kosovo 2021 - Community Building through Performance - Dragging Up the House Workshop leader
- Main Facilitator Queerdos Summer Camp Moldova , Queer Ecologies
- Film project against gender-based violence How to Deal with GBV, cooperation with UniNetz and IGGS Mozarteum
- miss*mutig member since 2020, demo against UG Nouvelle /FLINT*NIK/Women's Struggle Day Demo/ SLUTWALK 2021
- Speaker for Demo against LGBT Free Zones Poland, January 2020 Berlin
- Berlin Trans* March
- “Tünten Spaziergang" Neukölln-Berlin
- Volunteer for Reclaim Club Culture - Demos against the AfD, the policy of sealing off the external borders of the EU
Lectures/Conferences as Speaker on Trans/LGBQIA+Visibility
- NON-BINARY * INTER * TRANS - WHAT'S THAT ALL ABOUT? , event with 'University of Salzburg /gendup - Centre for Gender Studies and the Advancement of Women'.
- Lecture UniSalzburg, KO: Gender, Diversity & Inclusion in Salzburg
Performance artist
2020
Transvision #4 & #5 - The Ballery, Berlin
Marjja Zezë - spoken-word performance, The Ballery Berlin
DISCOnstruction - spoken-word performance, project room 145 Berlin
O problemă de dragoste nu mă lasă să dorm - duet by/with Zhenya Salinschi, Queer Voices Festival Kishinev, Moldova
2019
A Closet Full of Skeletons - drag performance, concept Ariel Nil Levy / Fabió M Silva
The Force of Cher Nobyl - drag performance, Club Nature Paris, France
2018
LaleleLalele - Active Art performance, directed by Bogdan Georgescu, Macaz Bucharest RO
Gruesome Manifesto with Cher Nobyl - drag performance, English Theatre Berlin, Apollo 111 Bucharest, Brighton Fringe Festival UK Queer Voices Festival, Moldova
...and Björk - drag performance, SO36 Berlin
Athanatizéin - solo dance performance, Arena Club, Berlin
2017
StagingAnxiety - performance installation dir. Marijn Ottenhof, Nieuw Dakota Museum, AmsterdamNL
Pedicula - opera performance dir.Leila Hekmat/Mia von Matt,Eden Eden Gallerie Berlin
Strange - solo dance performance, TheaterHaus Mitte Berlin
Theatre Acting
2018 Liberté - Volksbühne Berlin, as Catalin, r. Albert Serra
2015 The New Electric Ballroom (Enda Walsh) - Athanor Academy Burghausen, as Leander, dir.Theresa Reuben
2013 Năpasta Ion Luca Caragiale - National Theatre Bucharest, dir. Radu Afrim
Jacques or the Obedience Eugene Ionesco - UNATC Bucharest, as Jacques, dir. Laura Vlad
Equus Peter Shaffer - Nottara Theatre / Odeon Theatre Bucharest, as Alan Strang, dir. Geanina Hergheligiu
Almost, Maine John Cariani - Mignon Theatre Bucharest, as Pete / Dave, dir. Andreea Vulpe
Films/Acting
2018 Zygota - short film/Shira Kela/independent production
Liberté, -feature film.Albert Serra/ Ideal Audience France/Rosa Filmes /Jury Prize Cannes Film Festival
We are dancers -short film.Joe Morris/ LuzMedia Productions/UK
Out of Image,Lester- shorfilm.Jason Stewart/Karlsruhe Film School
2015 BEINGS - feature film. Andrei Ștefănescu/ Qualia Films
2018 Zygota - short film/Shira Kela/independent production
Liberté, -feature film.Albert Serra/ Ideal Audience France/Rosa Filmes /Jury Prize Cannes Film Festival
We are dancers -short film.Joe Morris/ LuzMedia Productions/UK
Out of Image,Lester- shorfilm.Jason Stewart/Karlsruhe Film School
2015 BEINGS - feature film. Andrei Ștefănescu/ Qualia Films
2014 Poarta Albă - feature film.Nicolae Mărgineanu/ Ager Film Productions
Love Bus: Five Love Stories from Bucharest,Vlad - omnibus film in five episodes.Roxana Andrei/Papillon Films/Netflix
Catalogul, - Sshort film.Sorin Marin/ SAGA Film2013 From Now On - medium length film.Dorian Boguță/ Bell Film Productions
Love Bus: Five Love Stories from Bucharest,Vlad - omnibus film in five episodes.Roxana Andrei/Papillon Films/Netflix
Catalogul, - Sshort film.Sorin Marin/ SAGA Film2013 From Now On - medium length film.Dorian Boguță/ Bell Film Productions
Attended workshops
2021 Melodrama - Mozarteum University
2020 Theatre of the opressed -Julian Boal/Barbara Santos, online
2017 Butoh workshop - Yoshito Ono, Yokohama Japan
Contact Improvisation - Tanzfabrik, Berlin Germany
2013 REGULA CONTRA REGULAM. theatre workshop - Raul Iaiza, Grotowski Institute, Brzezinka Poland
Commedia dell'Arte - Finnbar Ryan, T-WERK Berlin
Contradictions and multiplicity in contemporary theatre - Alexander Hausvater,Timișoara Romania
2012 The voice of the city - vaudeville/cabaret, T-WERK, Berlin
2010/2011 Training in contemporary Dance - with Andreea Novac, Mihai Mihalcea, National Centre of Dance, Bucharest
Awards
Prize for Best Actor in a directing piece, UNATC Graduation Gala
Award for acting debut -.UCIN Romania (The Romanian Filmmakers Union)
Award for Best Actor in a supporting role National Film Festival, Contanta Romania
2021 Melodrama - Mozarteum University
2020 Theatre of the opressed -Julian Boal/Barbara Santos, online
2017 Butoh workshop - Yoshito Ono, Yokohama Japan
Contact Improvisation - Tanzfabrik, Berlin Germany
2013 REGULA CONTRA REGULAM. theatre workshop - Raul Iaiza, Grotowski Institute, Brzezinka Poland
Commedia dell'Arte - Finnbar Ryan, T-WERK Berlin
Contradictions and multiplicity in contemporary theatre - Alexander Hausvater,Timișoara Romania
2012 The voice of the city - vaudeville/cabaret, T-WERK, Berlin
2010/2011 Training in contemporary Dance - with Andreea Novac, Mihai Mihalcea, National Centre of Dance, Bucharest
Awards
Prize for Best Actor in a directing piece, UNATC Graduation Gala
Award for acting debut -.UCIN Romania (The Romanian Filmmakers Union)
Award for Best Actor in a supporting role National Film Festival, Contanta Romania
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