Not everyone gets to intern at the famous Rimini Protokoll. Alžbeta Vrzgula (b. 1992) is one of the few. This talented director and playwright has participated in three projects with them: Utopolis Lausanne, Conference of the Absent Paris, and URBAN NATURE Mannheim. During her studies at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, she completed internships in Poitiers and Brno, and between 2015 and 2017 worked as an assistant director under director David Jařab. In Bratislava, she co-founded the independent professional theatre Uhol_92, where she is involved as an auteur. As a director, she has guest-directed on both Slovak and Czech stages – among others, the controversial queer variation on the story of the Maid of Orléans, Já, Johan*a (2023) at Divadlo Komedie. She won the 2022 DOSKY Award for directing her own play Ponížení a krvilační (Humiliated and Bloodthirsty). In 2024, she received the Tatra Bank Foundation Award for Young Artist Under 35 in the Theatre category for writing and staging Toni Wolff zisťuje, že prerobila milióny (Toni Wolff Realises She Lost Millions).

Last year, she presented her work at the festival. The three performances of her site-specific project Eden. Escape from Paradise (Petr Mankovecký Theatre) met with great acclaim.