Tiit Ojasoo

Tiit Ojasoo (born 28 August 1977) is an Estonian theatre director, stage pedagogue and academic. He co-founded and served as an artistic leader of Theatre NO99, and since 2022 has been a professor of dramatic art at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.

Working closely with the artist and director Ene-Liis Semper, Ojasoo became associated with politically engaged, postdramatic theatre that was influential in 21st-century Estonia. Scholars of Estonian theatre have described NO99 as one of the country's most acclaimed theatre companies and as an important participant in Estonia's theatrical public sphere. Ojasoo has received the Estonian state cultural award and the Order of the White Star, 3rd Class, and in 2024 shared the Estonian Theatre Union's directing award for Macbeth.

Early life and education Ojasoo was born in Pärnu. He studied classical philology at the University of Tartu in 1995–1996 and then trained in stage direction at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, receiving a BA in 2000 and an MA in 2003.

After NO99, Ojasoo continued directing at the Estonian Drama Theatre and in academy-related projects. His later productions include Crime and Punishment (2020, with Semper), 72 days (2022), Macbeth (2023, with Semper and conductor Olari Elts), Vend Antigone, ema Oidipus (2023), and Eneseabiõpik (2025). Since 2022 he has been professor of dramatic art at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. The proceedings ended in conciliation, and later that month Ojasoo resigned as head of NO99, while remaining with the theatre as a director. In 2018 his involvement in the artistic programme for Estonia's centenary Independence Day reception led to an open letter signed by 104 people and renewed public debate.

Selected productions Julia (Estonian Drama Theatre, 2004) Unified Estonia Assembly (Theatre NO99, 2010) Estonian Theatre Union directing award for GEP (2008) Estonian state cultural award, with Semper and Epner, for Unified Estonia Assembly (2011) Order of the White Star, 3rd Class (2016) Estonian Theatre Union directing award, with Semper and Elts, for Macbeth (2024)