photo by Jelena Janković
Born 1973 in Belgrade. Graduated Theatre Directing from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. Received MA at the Faculty of Philosophy (General Contemporary History Department) in 2002
Spent one year at the Fakultaet fuer Sozial und Humanwissenschaften (Theatre Science Deparment) at the Vienna University as the grant-holder of Herder Stipendium.
Directed performances in theatres in Serbia as well as in Croatia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Sweden, Denmark and Poland.
Received many theatre awards primarily for the work in the field of theatre for children and young audience. She has written columns, essays and articles on theatre for various theatre magazines and newspapers in Serbia and abroad (Teatron, Ludus, TKH, Gest, Politika).
1997 – 2000 Co-founder and Artistic Manager of TORPEDO Theatre Company
2002 – 2011 General and Artistic Manager of Little Theatre Dusko Radovic
2002 – 2006 Member of the European Cultural Parlament (ECP)
2006 Curator of theatre program for Belgrade Summer Festival (BELEF)
2013 – 2014 President of the Forum for Culture (European Movement in Serbia)
2006 – 2016: Curator of Belgrade International Theatre Festival (BITEF)
2019 – Present: Currently employed as a Professor of Theater Directing at Stockholm University of the Arts in Stockholm
SELECTED AWARDS
Annual Belgrade Drama Theatre Award (2006)
Grozdanin kikot International Award for Drama Pedagogy from the Theatre of Youth in Mostar (Bosnia) (2010)
ASSITEJ Award for the performance Little Prince at the TIBA (International Festival for Children and Young People) (2007)
Grand Prix for the performance Spring Awakenning at the TIBA Festival (International Festival for Children and Young People), Belgrade (2010)
Special International Jury Award for the Artistic Achievement at the TIBA Festival (International Festival for Children and Young People) for the performance In the Shadow of Hamlet, Children’s Cultural Centre, Belgrade (2011)
Grand Prix for the performance Rent a Friend at the Marulicevi dani Festival for children and young people in Split, Coratia (2012)
Grand Prix for the performance Rent a Friend at the Croatian ASSITEJ Festival in Čakovec (2012)
Croatian Theatre Award (2012) for the Best Performance for Children and Youth (2012)
Award of the City of Gothenburg for the best performance in 2012 (2013)
Nikola -Peca Petrović Award for the best theatre manager in Serbia, awarded by the National Theatre in Sombor (2010)
Selected theatre performances
Martin Crimp, In the Republic of Happiness – Uppsala Stadsteater, 20. September 2025.
Hinkemann, Sveriges nationalscen för teater – Dramaten, March 2025
Time for Joy, Ljubljana City Theatre, September, 2024.
Prima Facie, Bitef Theatre, January, 2024
#jeanne by Ivana Sajko, Riksteatern in collaboration with Dramaten, March 2023.
Women As Lovers (Based on the novel by Elfriede Jelinek), Uppsala Stadsteater, September, 2022.
A Few Messages To The Space by Wolfram Lotz, Bitef Teatar, December, 2021.
We’ll Lough At That Someday by Ivana Sajko, Ljubljana City Theatre, September 2021.
The Republic by Agnieszka Jakimiak and Tom Silkeberg, Mladinsko Theatre, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2019.
Three Winters by Tena Štivičić, Uppsala Stadsteater, 2019.
What’s Eating You? by Dimen Abdulla, Ung Scen Öst, Linköping, Sweden, 2018.
King Mat The First by Janusz Korczak, Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, Ljubljana, Slovenia, December 1, 2017.
Apati (Based on “The Request Concert” by Franz Xaver Kroetz), Teater Republique, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 12, 2017.
Cherry Orchard by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Gothenburg City Theatre, Gothenburg, Sweden, March 17, 2017.
It’s Only the End of the World by Jean-Luc Lagarce, Uppsala Stadsteater, Uppsala, Sweden, December 2016.
The Ridiculous Darkness by Wolfram Lotz, Helsingborg City Theatre, September 2016.
Illusions by Ivan Vyripaev, Ljubljana City Theatre, May 2016.
Blood on the Cat’s Neck by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Teatr Polski Bydgoszcz, March 2016.
Our Class by Tadeusz Slobodzianiek, Helsingborgsstadsteater, Helsingborg, Sweden, September 2015.
Once We Got Lost by Lotte Faarup, Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 2015.
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, Aarhus Teater, Aarhus, Denmark, 2015.
Ungdomen ar Deras Sjukdom, Ferdinand Bruekner/Stefan Akeson, Backa Teater, 2014.
Little Golden Shoes by Dominik Smole, Ljubljana City Theatre, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2014.
Chinaman by Maja Todorović, City Theatre Podgorica and Kotor Art Festival, Podgorica, Montenegro, 2014.
Astronauts by Bea Usma Shifferts & Emma Brostrom, Children’s Cultural Centre/Little Theatre Duško Radović, 2014.
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Children’s Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Serbia, 2013.
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, Ljubljana City Theatre, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2013.
Maja and Me and Maja by Milan Marković/Sreten Ugričić, Bitef Teatar, Belgrade & De Facto, Zagreb, 2012.
5boys.com by Simona Semenič, Backa Teater, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2012.
Rent a Friend by Dora Ruždjak Podolski/Saša Božić, City Theatre Trešnja, Zagreb, Croatia, 2011.
In the Shadow of Hamlet by William Shakespeare/Irena Kraus, Children’s Cultural Centre, Belgrade, 2011.
Through a Glass Darkly by Ingmar Bergman, Belgrade Drama Theatre, Belgrade, Serbia, 2011.
Spring Awakenning, Frank Wedekind/Irena Kraus, Little Theatre Duško Radović, Serbia, 2010.
Vogellein by Staffan Valdemar Holm, National Theatre Belgrade, Serbia, 2008.
Face of Glass by Marija Karaklajić, Bitef Theatre, Belgrade, Serbia, 2008.
The Burlesque About a Greek by Andrej Hieng, Madlenianum, Belgrade, Serbia, 2006.
The Little Prince, Little Theatre Duško Radović, Belgrade, Serbia, 2006.
Genesis No. 2. by Ivan Vyripaev, Belgrade Drama Theatre, Serbia, 2006.
Pathogen by Albert Ostermaier, Belgrade Drama Theatre, Belgrade, Serbia, 2005.
Pillowman by Martin McDonagh, Belgrade Drama Theatre, Belgrade, Serbia, 2004.
Anthony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Belef, Sava Centar, Belgrade, Serbia, 2004.
Parasites by Marius von Mayenburg, Beton Hala, Belgrade, Serbia, 2003.
Animal Farm by George Orwell, Belef, Barutana, Belgrade, Serbia, 1999.
Ethno Rave Circuss, Torpedo Theatre Company, Dom Omladine, Belgrade, Serbia, 1998.
Overlapping, Torpedo Theatre Company, Belef, Dom Omladine, Belgrade, Serbia, 1997.