Artistic director of the New Riga Theatre. He produces plays in the most prominent European theatres and opera houses. His productions feature in the largest theatre festivals and have toured more than 40 countries. He has received many professional awards and prizes and was recently named among the ten most influential European theatre personalities of the last decade by Du Magazin, Swiss periodical for arts and culture.

Deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine Isskustvo kino, author of numerous articles on cinema, theatre and literature. She has published several books, including Ulrich Seidl. The Method, Kira Muratova. Film Art, Postdoc. Fiction/Non-Fiction. She has a blog on kinoart.ru. Collaborates with colta.ru, newspaper Novaya gazeta, magazine Teatr and other media. She lectures in the Museum of Tolerance, project Cinematheque of Isskustvo kino and Stanislavsky Electrotheatre.

A Russian journalist and the founder of Meduza — a Riga-based online newspaper and news aggregator in the Russian language. Former chief editor of online edition Lenta.ru,
recognized by Harvard University as the most widely quoted in the Russian-language blogs news source. In October 2014, she together with several former journalists of Lenta.ru launched a new media based in Latvia, because it was impossible to establish an independent publishing house in Russia.