Dr. Asta Petrikienė is a theatre scholar, lecturer at Faculty of Creative Industries at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. Her scientific interests include institutional theatre history of the 20th century. In 2015 she defended her doctoral thesis on the role of state in Lithuanian theatre between 1918 and 1940. Her key publications are contributions to collective monographs Reclaimed Avant-garde: Spaces and Stages of Avant-garde Theatre in Central-Eastern Europe (2018) and Lexicon of Avant-garde Theatre in Central-Eastern Europe (2021).