{"id":5398,"date":"2024-03-13T10:17:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T08:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2024.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/uudised\/leino-rei-chosen-next-director-estonian-theatre-young-audiences\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:51:18","slug":"leino-rei-chosen-next-director-estonian-theatre-young-audiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/news\/leino-rei-chosen-next-director-estonian-theatre-young-audiences\/","title":{"rendered":"Leino Rei chosen as the next director of Estonian Theatre for Young Audiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yesterday the board of the Estonian Theatre for Young Audiences Foundation elected Leino Rei, the head of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/treff\">Tallinn Treff<\/a> festival, as the new head of the theatre.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision was based on the idea that the Youth Theatre stands on strong foundations, which means that in the coming years we do not expect so much change as a continuation and completion of what has been done. Above all, we believe that the theatre needs creative peace and stability, which could be a breeding ground for new, good ideas,&#8221; said Merju K\u00fcnnapuu, Chairwoman of the Council.<\/p>\n<p>According to K\u00fcnnapuu the theatre has reached a very good creative form, achieved significant public interest, received recognition, and maintained a good internal atmosphere and work culture on a daily basis. &#8220;Leino Rei has been actively involved in all of this for years, so he has a good overview with practical skills to effectively continue the work,&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n<p>Leino Rei sees his primary mission as theatre director as ensuring that the daily rhythm of life of the theatre continues in creative peace and with the same intensity. &#8220;At the same time, exciting challenges lie ahead of us in the near future, both in terms of visual theatre education and internationalisation. It is an opportune moment to take a deep breath and then continue this journey together with our very strong team,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Leino Rei will assume the role of theatre director from mid-April onwards. Until then, the current theatre director, Joonas Tartu, will continue to fulfill the duties of the position.<\/p>\n<p><em>The picture shows Leino at last year&#8217;s Tallinn Treff festival, photo by Indrek Rammus.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the board of the Estonian Theatre for Young Audiences Foundation elected Leino Rei, the head of Tallinn Treff festival, as the new head of the theatre.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[328],"class_list":["post-5398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-festival-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38754,"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398\/revisions\/38754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}