Tjaša Črnigoj graduated in theatre directing from Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television and also studied philosophy and comparative literature at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. She is currently in education to become a psychodrama psychotherapist at the Slovenian Society for Psychodrama. As a theatre director and author, she works in both institutional and independent scenes. In 2021, she spent five months in residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, where she led a transdisciplinary laboratory Through the Eyes of Others. She received a scholarship from the In the Field program at the Wiener Festwochen festival in 2022 and was part of the European Theatre Academy 2024 (European Theatre Convention), which took place during the Festival d’Avignon. Alongside Girls and Grannies with Igralke Collective, one of her most notable theater projects in the recent years is Sex Education II (The New Post Office and City of Women, 2022/2023), a series of five lecture-performances on women’s sexual pleasure, which was awarded in the Week of Slovenian Drama, and at the Maribor Theatre Festival as well as from the Association of Theatre Critics and Researchers of Slovenia and the BITEF festival in Belgrade. In 2024 Tjaša Črnigoj received the Župančič Award, the highest recognition from the City of Ljubljana for achievements in the arts, and the Women on Women Award from City of Women.

»True, engaging, and powerful«
Ivana Pejić, Kulturpunkt.hr

»A play that leaves behind a deep emotional trace«
Glorija Fabijanić-Jelović, Vijenac

»An important story that will be talked about for a long time«
Bojana Guberac, Lupiga.com

»A brilliant, poignant, deeply layered, high-quality, and engaging documentary performance that is also humorous, evoking both tears and laughter—something rarely seen.«
Mima Gavrilov, Pančevo.city

»Everything we discover about the work with these women, their involvement in the broader work of Igralke, their contribution to the development of the performance, and above all, the way their voices are given space, demonstrates a mature, thoughtful, and responsible artistic endeavour. (...) Alongside refined acting performances, the director's approach to alternating voices and stories highlights the value of director Tjaša Črnigoj, who has shown that it is possible to sustain constant attention and emotional intensity even within such a demanding approach.«
Bernard Koludrović, Kulturpunkt.hr

»The intertwining of personal stories, statistics, and testimonies in the inspired performance of four actresses gradually paints a portrait of contemporary society and all those who find themselves on its margins, especially women. This poignant and, at times, deeply moving performance repeatedly manages to find moments of human warmth within its bitter subject matter.«
Gregor Butala, Dnevnik.si

»And once again, we find ourselves laughing, drawn in by the joy of play—by storytelling, then by facts, then by the pleasure of beauty, video recordings, the shadows of plastic, storytelling, and storytelling again. The performance constantly shifts its means of expression, captivating us precisely through this dispersion, multiplicity, and diversity of theatrical language. It does not let us drift into passivity; instead, it keeps us awake by telling the story in different ways, engaging various cognitive channels in the audience. (…) It does not leave us passive—it awakens us.
The performance reaches far beyond the walls of the theatre, both visible and invisible. In the end, it changed the lives of four people. It resonated in the media, prompting Croatia’s left-wing politicians to take action in parliament. It received numerous donations that are now in the hands of elderly women. Most of all, it gave its co-authors an in-between space where different worlds can communicate, understand one another, and even create together—rather than merely passing each other by.«
Ana Lorger, Kriterij.si