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Milena is the author of the educational TV series Little Calendar, broadcast daily on Happy TV. As a copyrighter and screenwriter, she is the permanent associate to various media companies, marketing agencies at TV stations, as well as magazines, mostly for women... She wrote several screenplays for short and student films... Besides plays and screenplays, she also writes slam poetry. The first collection, entitled TV Commercial Poetry, is expected to be in print in 2005, published by the Student Cultural Centre, Novi Sad. She received the Josip Kulundžić award for"exceptional success in theatre", at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in 2003. Play "Dear dad" is second part of my triology about Crni. In Serbian language his nickname means "black one". 1 don't know who is that gye. I know he is really dangerous, bad, aggressive, I know that he exists, he lives in Belgrade, time to time I hear something about him, but I don't know his biography, 1 don't know what makes him do the things he does. 1 often think of Crni as of deamon, not as a character.... In the first play, firs part of the triology, Crni killed the boy in the fight after the football match. What happened with the gun? This is the story of a "Dear dad"... After the opening night in Belgrade, someone asked me if this two plays happened the same week. I said "Yes. But it is not that simple. Cause I believe that the same week last for a ten years, for my generation in my hometown."."Dear dad" is realistic, almost a documetary play. But, for some reasons I always think of this as a mataphore. "Dear dad" is a play with subtitle: "Greetings from Belgrade". It is based on the local story, typical characters from my hometown, and also very hard slang of Belgrade's streets. Main themes; graving up in a society without any system of values and vanishing of the middle class familys in war and postwar Serbia, were more than familiar to me. At the very begining of a procès, I thought that Belgrade iconografy is the most important part ofthat play. But, than I had a chance to work on the script, with five directors, and six groups of actors who were not from my cultural background. This is how I discovered the much more important layer of this drama. Simply, this is a play about graving up.