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★ ANA TOMOVIČ (Belgrade, 1979) graduated in Theatre and Radio Directing at Faculty of Drama Arts, mentored by Professor Egon Savin. At the moment, she is pursuing her PhD at the same faculty. She has directed: Mother Courage (Bertolt Brecht, National Theatre, Belgrade), Crime and Punishment (F.M. Dostoyevsky, Yugoslav Drama Theatre), The Finger (Doruntina Basha, Heartefact/Bitef theatre), The Witches (Roald Dahl, Little Theatre “Duško Radovič”), Romeo and Juliette (Shakespeare, Theatre Oberhausen), Ronald, Please Understand Me (Filip Vujošević, National Theatre in Belgrade), Woyzeck-Hinkemann Case (Georg Büchner/Ernst Toller, Bitef theatre), The Doll Ship (Milena Markovič, Serbian National Theatre), Trtmrtži votilismrt (BELEF 2007), norway.today (Igor Bauerisma, Belgrade Drama Theatre/Kruševac

★ ULACH DEKEL-AVNER, president is an Israeli theatre director, dramaturge, curator, translator and researcher. She has graduated in writing, dramaturgy and directing from the Theatre department at the Faculty in Tel Aviv, and since 2012 she has been working on her PhD. She is the founder of theatre troupe “Pathos-Mathos” whose first performance is to be premiered in October 2014 at the festival of alternative theatre Acco. As a guest of German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she took part at Theatertreffen Festival. In 2013, she was the artistic director of International showcase of Israeli theatre and Isra-Drama. The aim of that festival, supported by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Culture, is to present the theatre of Israel to theatre audience in the whole world. Lilach was also a member of theatre management of Nekudat Pticha 2013, the project in which directors and dramaturges train young playwrights.

Theatre), Monogamy (Stella Feehily, National Theatre Sombor), The Return of Casanova (Arthur Schnitzler, Serbian National Theatre), Halflife (Filip Vujošević, Atelje 212), Duck (Stella Feehily, Kraljevo Theatre), Creeps (Lutz Hübner, Belgrade Drama Theatre). She was a directing assistant at the project Fast sicher (Theater am Neumarkt, Zurich, 2007), and had Goethe Institute scholarship for a study visit to Thalia Theatre (Hamburg, 2008). She won Joakim Vujič award for directing twice, and her performance The Doll Ship has won award at Sterijino Pozorje in 2009, She has participated at numerous festivals in the country and abroad (Bitef; Neue Stücke aus Europa; European Young Directors Forum; La Mama Theatre, New York 2012...) She worked for Bitef bulletin between 1998 and 2005.

wrights. From 2006 to 2012, she was the selector and dramaturge in Tmu-na Theatre where she directed most of her performances. At the same time, she initiated many festivals whose selector she also was - Bio-Feedback, Shakespeare Unplugged, The Norwegian Season, and The German Season. For her directions she has received five “Golden Hedgehog” awards. Her latest performance, Muranooo, an IsraeliPolish coproduction, has been premiered in Warsaw. Very often, her work is described as theatre events or art works of poetic or surreal quality that offer a real alternative to conventional theatre. She has translated plays by Sarah Kane, Falk Richter, Dennis Kelly, and she was also a co-editor of the Anthology of German XXI c. Drama. Her texts on theatre have been published in many magazines. During her postgraduate studies, Lilach initiated, founded and led student theatre festival Small Bama which, in the course of fourteen years became a cornerstone of the department for theatre studies at Tel Aviv University.

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