Alice Rugai

Alice Muitoevoli Rugai writes theatre texts, prose and poetry. Born and raised in Tuscany, Italy, Rugai studied Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Pisa, Theatre Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and Creative Writing for the Stage at the Berlin University of the Arts. Rugai’s texts have been presented in workshop productions and staged readings in Berlin and Hamburg and also at Stadttheater Ingolstadt as part of the Bayerische Theatertage.

The young people’s play Hamsterrad (world premiered in February 2024 at Theater Strahl in Berlin) was included in the pool of plays for KAAS&KAPPES – the Dutch-German festival of children’s and young people’s theatre – and was awarded funding by Perform Europe for guest performances in Luxemburg and Liechtenstein, where the play even attracted attention from a far-right party in parliament. 

Cembalo – a gemischte Orientierung Period-Drama was published in S. Fischer Verlag’s Dramatische Rundschau in 2025. The queer-feminist speech Klassensprache Körperkämpfe Parttimefrau was selected by the Stiftung Brückner-Kühner for its project “Ungehaltene Reden Ungehaltener Frauen” and published in the accompanying anthology.

Rugai’s work focusses on bi-visibility, biodiversity and classism. Thanks to two #perchicrea grants from the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers (SIAE) Rugai is currently placing more emphasis on work in Italian and since 2025 has been a member of the translation collective Transletting.