Petra Rațiu

Petra Rațiu is a Romanian theatre director, born in Mediaș in 1989. She studied acting at UNATC in Bucharest, where she performed at the National Theatre. She later broadened her work through a collaboration with the Athanor Academy in Passau under David Esrig, where she staged her first productions.

Her career took her to the Volksbühne Berlin and the Schauspielhaus Zürich as assistant director to Herbert Fritsch; from 2017 to 2019 she worked with various directors at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz.

Since 2020 she has been directing in Switzerland and Germany, including “Sauerstoff” at the Musiktheater Gelsenkirchen and “Muttersprache Mameloschn”, which won the main prize at the Mittelsächsisches Theaterfestival in Leipzig.