Author: Tjaša Ferme

Tjaša Ferme is an award-winning actor, playwright, and creator and has received a Slovenian National Film Award and Stane Sever classical stage award. The Founding Artistic Director of Transforma Theatre Inc., dedicated to creating interactive theatrical experiences at the nexus of science, consciousness and ritual, she created The Female Role Model Project, blending interactive theatre with neuroscience and produced Off-Broadway in New York City at the premier art-and-tech center 3-Legged Dog in November 2018 and at Edinburgh Fringe 2019. The play received a NYITA nomination for Outstanding Innovative Design and Fast Company”s honorary mention for World Changing Ideas Awards shared with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It was also featured at the Ammerman Biennial of Arts and Technology 2018. In 2021 Ferme created and produced the sold out Science in Theatre Festival at The Cell Theatre, NYC, covered by Forbes and American Theatre Magazine, among others. Tjasa is the creator of the short film Ophelia”s Flip (Cannes Film Festival, 2012), the farce stage hit Cocktales – Confessions of a Nymphomaniac (The Cell, Abingdon Theatre, Miami Art Basel), an interactive solo show, Wild Child in the City, and the new play My Marlene (HERE, Dixon Place). Wild Child In The City premiered in NYC (Theater Lab), filled houses on European tours and received an Audience Choice Award at 46th TSD-Week of Slovenian Drama. It won a grant from Trust for Mutual Understanding for a tour at ITI-UNESCO Mono Akt festival in Kosovo, winning a Special Jury Prize, and “Northern Meetings” in Siberia. In December 2016 Ferme created a devised theatre piece about migrations Back to The Promised Land through the lens of the current refugee crisis in coproduction with Skogen, Sweden and Maska, Slovenia. As an actor Ferme played principal characters in many award-winning plays, films and web-series, among them: The Upper Room (NYTimes critic”s pick), Three Trembling Cities (Best of Stereable, Toronto, Brooklyn, Philly Web Fests and more), Larry Gone Demon (10 film awards), Ophelia”s Flip (Cannes premiere), and Dutch Kills (Best Thriller Manhattan FF). She received artistic residencies at the cell (Cocktales-Confessions of a Nymphomaniac), Theaterlab (The Female Role Model Project-immersive, My Marlene), Residency 108 (Wild Child In The City-online performance) and Skogen in Sweden (Back to The Promised Land). Her academic experience includes Adjunct Professor at New York City University of Technology, CUNY-Spring Production 2019, creating a BCI video game on gender identity; Guest Speaker-Women in Literature: Theater of Resistance at Pace University; Ammerman College Symposium-Intersections Biennale of Art and Technology excerpt presentation of The Female Role Model Project; guest lecturer at SUNY Purchase on Site-specific theatre; and Visiting Artist for NYU Gallatin class on Art and Shamanism. Her work has been written about in major media outlets, including Forbes, The New York Times, American Theatre Magazine, Fast Company, Huffington Post, Thrive Global, Time Out New York, Miami New Times, Sun-Sentinel, The F Word-Contemporary UK feminism, Feminist Fringe. Born and raised in Slovenia and based in NYC, she works globally, including in the USA, UK, Russia, Brazil, Sweden, Austria, Italy, Estonia, Slovenia, and Croatia… More at https://tjasaferme.com/