Genta Retkoceri
Co-founder of Tiactro
Gentë Retkoceri is a multidisciplinary artist from Kosova who lives in Qatar since 2018. Currently she is an Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Communication, Northwestern University in Qatar. She obtained her MFA in Design (2022) from VCUarts in Qatar. Through her work she has merged live performance and film with designs that tackle controversial topics mostly about women’s rights. Through performing arts, she has developed educational design ideas and workshops for children and adults in Qatar. She has a BA in Architecture (2012) and a BA in Acting (2013) from the University of Prishtina and an MA in Theater Education (2016) from Emerson College in Boston, US. She is an experienced actor in a theater and film counting more than 20 main roles over her 10-year career.
Diversity of Experiences
Her wide-ranging career has taken her from working in Kosovo at the University of Prishtina, the National Theater of Kosova to the USA working for the Emerson Stage in Boston. Currently, she is also conducting different acting and performance courses at the Al Jazeera Training institute in Doha.
She conducted two theater workshops during the D’reesha Performing Arts Festival which was inaugurated for the first time on December 2021 by Qatar Foundation