Tambet Tuisk

TAMBET TUISK is a freelance film and theatre actor who graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (2000) and worked at the Vanemuine Theatre (2000-2005) and Teater NO99 (2005-2012).

By 2012, Tuisk had been heavily involved in theatre to the point where he needed a creative break and the experience of being his own employer, thus becoming a freelance actor. At that point, he started focusing on on-screen work, leading to film projects in Estonia, Germany, Austria, Laos, and Ukraine, and ongoing television projects and TV series.

Tuisk has also appeared as a guest actor at the Estonian Drama Theatre where he played a role in the premiere of Hendrik Toompere's production "Suur Siberimaa" (2020). In 2023, he portrayed the role of Banco in the joint project "Macbeth" by the Estonian Drama Theatre and the Estonian Concert (directors E.-L. Semper and T. Ojasoo, conductor O. Elts).

As a director, Tuisk has explored the boundless possibilities of imagination in radio theatre. His experiences as an actor-dramaturge-reflective collaborator have also been creatively enriching in productions like "Hingake, ärge hingake" / “Breathe, Don't Breathe” (director L. Vares, 2018); "Pure Pink Pox" (Bokaldere/Eskusson/Kreutzberg/Raudva, 2022); "Übermensch" (director-actor J. R. Sepping, 2022) and "Vaatamata kõigele" / “Regardless of Everything” (director H. Junti, 2023).

Since 2017, Tuisk has been an instructor in the acting programme at the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy where conducts weekly masterclasses, participates in admission, examination, and final project assessment juries. This engagement also led to a special final-year project with his students, a hybrid experiment "Memento" (2023), which was also streamed on the elektron.art website. The experiment aimed to explore the spontaneous flow of associations in front of the camera and how to use it for creative material gathering.