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MAJA PELEVIĆ j Playwright | Born February 13,1981 in Belgrade. Graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Department of Dramaturgy, in 2005. Currently a graduate student of Theory of Arts and Media, at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Arts in Belgrade. In 2000/01 , as a visiting student at the Tisch School of Arts in New York, USA, she audited several courses, including Performance and Ritual taught by Richard Schechner, Theories of the Avant-garde and Contemporary American Theatre. In July/August 2005 she participated at the Royal Court International Residency program, at the Royal Court Theatre in London, with the play Orange Peel, which had a public reading at the Royal Court Theatre, and then published in the Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Drama until 2005 - Youth Before Death. She collaborates with the Theory that Walks(TkH) and TkH - Centre for Theory and Practice of Performing Arts in Belgrade. Together with other members of this project she participated in several theoretical happenings and performances. She is the project coordinator for NADA (NEW DRAMA), a project for the development of contemporary Serbian playwrighting. One of the founders of SFW / website for the promotion of contemporary Serbian drama. www.nova-drama.org A member of the editing board of the theatre journal SCENA since October 2005. Her plays were translated into English, French and German language.

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OUT OF GEAR - National Theatre in Subotica, 2005, directed by Sladjana Kilibarda; OUT OF GEAR - MTM Mostar, directed by Miloš Lazin, June 2006; ESCape - Bitef Theatre, 2004 directed by Jelena Bogavac; Fake Porno (together with M.Bogavac, J. Bogavac and F. Vujošević) directed by Jelena Bogavac, BITEF 39, Bitef Art Cafe 2005; Be a Lady for One Day - drama inspired by the life of Billie Holiday, directed by Ksenija Krnajski, BITEF 39, Bitef Theatre, 2005; Beograd-Berlin - Zvezdara Teatar, u režiji Ksenije Krnajski 2005. Belgrad-Berlin -Volksbuehne Theatre, Berlin, directed by Predrag Kalaba, 2005; Operation Emotional Verbalization -West Yorkshire Playhouse (England, Leeds), May 2004, within the Festival Northern Exposure (SUMMER SHORTS), directed by Svetlana Dimčović; Operation Emotional Verbalization, a radio drama that premiered on Radio Belgrade, in March 2004, directed by Iva Milosevic; Orange Peel - Atelje 212, directed by Goran Marković, April 2006; ORANGE PEEL is a drama about a contemporary woman who is constantly facing desires and expectations of the people around her, and also the growing pressure of the media that is persistently trying to shape her identity and physical appearance. In her search for one of those "media" identities she starts to discard and lose her own identity. While conducting an experiment on herself, and in an attempt to become what she is not but what is expected of her, at the end she gets lost and disintegrated in the web that she herself has created. And so she undergoes the physical and mental transformation, losing herself in the world of stereotypes. CYBER CHICK vs. REAL TIME is a dramatic sketch that has served as an inspiration for the play Orange Peel. It is about a contemporary woman who identifies her reality with the cyber world. In search for the form that would best describe the life today, I transferred the drama from the reality into cyber spaces - e-mails, websites, chat rooms... The plays can be read on the website www.nova-drama.org