Email: tea.alagic@mac.com
Phone: 917 539 3928
Address:
1919 Madison Avenue, Apt 309
New York, NY 10025
Vera Fortis
A home for international voices and radical forms, VERA FORTIS is a collaborative company of designers, actors, producers and writers.
Vera Fortis
VERA FORTIS is a collaborative artistic collective bringing together international voices and bold creative forms, uniting designers, actors, producers, and writers within a shared space for interdisciplinary expression.
Founded in 2025 by director Tea Alagić, VERA FORTIS is a multidisciplinary, internationally driven collective creating formally rigorous, politically engaged performance across theater, film, and new media.
Born out of lived experience war, exile, and survival the company interrogates power, class, gender, history, and individual responsibility through classical texts, new writing, and devised work. Its practice resists neutrality. It insists on art as a political act.
VERA FORTIS creates bold, multilingual performances with artists from across the globe, centering the body, rhythm, architecture, silence, and the lived histories performers bring into the room particularly those shaped by displacement and conflict.
At its core, the company is committed to female-centered narratives and to artists whose voices have been historically marginalized or erased. The work does not aestheticize trauma it confronts it.
VERA FORTIS
Using a formally rigorous praxis, Alagic draws on years of physical theatre training with luminaries including Peter Brook, Ariane Mnouchkine, Simon McBurney, Robert Lepage, and Richard Foreman, as well as classical training in order to break open text. For Alagic, visual, spatial, and sonic thinking begin at the first rehearsal. A political refugee herself, Tea’s work often centers on women grappling with the ways political conflicts have marginalized, erased and instrumentalized their bodies, languages and communities. Regarded by critics as “vivid” and “vital”, it is work that emphasises the ways international exchange is not a luxury, but a political necessity, particularly in a world increasingly defined by borders, nationalism, and exclusion.
WHY NOW
In a world defined by war, displacement, and rising nationalism, VERA FORTIS insists on the urgency of international, politically engaged art.
This work creates space for stories too often erased or simplified.
It challenges audiences to confront uncomfortable truths.
It refuses resolution without responsibility.
