Margo Zālīte
About Margo Zālīte
Prof. Margo Zālīte is a theater and opera director, researcher, and educator whose work lives at the restless intersection of performance pedagogy, digital cultures, and social justice. With over fifteen years of practice spanning rehearsal rooms, festival stages, and university seminars across Europe and beyond, she brings both intellectual rigor and genuine creative warmth to everything she does.
She holds a professorship in Dramaturgy and Interdisciplinary Music Projects at the Kunstuniversität Graz (KUG), where she is building a new program that puts artistic research, collaboration, and critical thinking at the center of music theater training. She is also Künstlerische Mitarbeiterin at the Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, and leads the Sustainable Theater Lab at the Ligeti Center in Hamburg — a hub for community-rooted, ecologically and socially conscious performance projects that she continues to develop with energy and conviction.
From 2020 to 2024 she served as Artistic Co-Director of Theater Festival FAVORITEN in Dortmund, curating a platform for boundary-pushing interdisciplinary work. Earlier, she worked as assistant to the Artistic Director at the Ruhrtriennale, one of Europe’s most adventurous large-scale festivals.
Margo’s practice is shaped by a deep commitment to inclusive and participatory art-making — to creating spaces where marginalized voices are not just represented but genuinely heard. Her current research explores AI, performance, and the question of what a more just artistic practice might actually look like in practice.