Dr Asta Petrikienė is a research fellow at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Department of Music and Theatre History. Her research interests include Lithuanian and European theatre history, the socioeconomical aspects of theatre making, sustainability and technologies in theatre, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the theatre industry. In 2015, Petrikienė defended her doctoral thesis on relations between theatre and the state in Interwar Lithuania. Her key publications are contributions to the collective monographs, Reclaimed Avant-garde: Spaces and Stages of Avant-garde Theatre in Central-Eastern Europe (2018) and Lexicon of Avant-garde Theatre in Central-Eastern Europe (2022).
