DOOMSDAY LOVERS

International theater collective

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DOOMSDAY LOVERS is an international theatre collective making work about love, intimacy and human connection in a world that increasingly feels like it is ending.
We bring together physical theatre, contemporary writing, live cinema and emerging technologies, moving freely between languages, cultures and theatrical traditions.
We make theatre for people trying to build a small world while the larger one keeps barging in.

Meet the Framebreaker

ROMULUS LICU

Tudor Romulus Licu is a Romanian stage director, playwright and dramaturg whose work has developed between contemporary writing, devised theatre, cinema, live music and, increasingly, emerging technologies. Trained in directing at the National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest, he began making theatre as a teenager before entering Romania’s institutional theatre system, assisting at the National Theatre of Bucharest and eventually making his professional directing debut at the Radu Stanca National Theatre in Sibiu with Terminal Generation, his first work on the apocalypse, created with six playwrights and selected for the Sibiu International Theatre Festival after winning the theatre’s Manifest for Dialogue open call. The production later received the Iulian Vișa Prize, which was a perfectly respectable beginning to what would become a progressively less respectable series of decisions.

JULIETTE CASTRO

Juliette Castro is a French actress, circus kid, soprano and philosopher who has been throwing herself at stages, people and generally unsafe situations for most of her life. She spent ten years training in circus at Toulouse’s Lido — six of them intensively, climbing Chinese poles, doing acrobatics, throwing people, being thrown by people and learning fairly early that gravity is negotiable if you commit hard enough. She then moved through the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Toulouse, the Conservatoire du 6e arrondissement in Paris and the École Claude Matthieu, while somehow also completing a Master’s in Social and Political Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure. Because apparently one extreme was never going to be enough.

KIAN DILLON

Kian Dillon is a Magandjin-based theatre maker, producer and co-director of T!TS AKIMBO – a performance collective and producing house she founded with creative collaborator Fliss Morton in 2022. A couple of dirty, disgusting demons making art and events on the unceded lands of the Turrbal and Jagera people, T!TS AKIMBO creates, supports, and showcases work that holds femme and gender non-conforming artists and stories at its core. Their award-winning T!TS are led by obsession, driven by experimentation, and desperate to make spaces that feel unfettered and alive. At the core of their work is a commitment to artistic experimentation that happens outside traditional theatre spaces, in real sandpits where artists can get messy and transgressive.

ÖMER FARUK ERTUĞRUL

Ömer Faruk Ertuğrul is a Turkish actor, mover and professional shapeshifter whose work lives somewhere between theatre, dance, clown and whatever happens when the body gets there before the brain does. Born in Turkey in 2000, he began making theatre in 2015, training first in his hometown before continuing through the Bursa State Theatre and the Theatre Department at Uludağ University.

FÉLIX PAGÈS

Félix Pagès is a French computer-science engineer, theatre-maker, hacker-poet and reality metamorphoser who spent the first part of his adult life giving absolutely no indication that he would eventually start using artificial intelligence to possess dead televisions. He trained as an engineer in AI and data science at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne, buried himself in cognitive science, philosophy, epistemology and the history of technology, then spent two years as a research engineer at the Institut de Recherche en Musicologie working in digital humanities and generally building the immaculate CV of somebody who could have made a lot of money and caused absolutely no trouble.

Doomsday Lovers