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Anton Korenči
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Anton Korenči graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava where he majored in theatre direction in the class of Professor Vladimír Strnisko. His graduation work was a staged production of R. W. Fassbinder’s Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2009). In 2012, he completed his doctoral study at the Academy of Performing Arts. With classmate Juraj Bielik, Korenči then set up a directorial duo. In the Bratislava theatres a.ha and the STU Small Stage, they staged productions aiming to make generational statements, such as Ferdinand Bruckner’s Pains of Youth (2009), Werner Schwab’s First Ladies (2010), or Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (2012).

In 2009–2012, he worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Theatre Direction and Dramaturgy, the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts. In 2010–2020, he was a pedagogue of acting, theory and history of theatre at the Conservatory on 11 Tolstého Street in Bratislava. Since 2020, he has worked as a pedagogue of acting at the Conservatory in Košice. Korenči completed a bachelor’s programme in religious studies at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, where he studied the theory of theatre from an anthropological perspective with a specific focus on theatre and ritual in the Mayan tradition.

In 2017, he founded the independent platform for professional performative art AntiTeatro. The platform’s first production was based on Elias Canetti’s essay Crowds and Power and was nominated by the Academy of Theatre Artists for the Best Production of the 2018–2019 season award.  As part of the AntiTeatro platform’s next project The Decline of the West, in 2020 Korenči held a lecture at Stanford University in the United States (Oswald Spengler’s ‘The Decline of the West’ as Theatrical Performance) and in Poland. Korenči’s productions have been included in the programmes of many Czech and Slovak theatre festivals.

As a director, Korenči has collaborated with numerous Slovak theatres, such as the Slovak National Theatre, State Theatre Košice, Bratislava Puppet Theatre, or Alexander Duchnovič Theatre in Prešov. Between 2020 and 2023, he was the director of the Drama Department of the State Theatre Košice.