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MILENA MARKOVIĆ Playwright, poet, and screenwriter was born in Zemun, on April 9,1974. in June 1998, she graduatedfrom the Faculty of Dramatic Arts having presented her drama titled Pavilions, or Where I Am Going, Where I Come from and What's for Dinner. In December 2001 she won the Special Prize for the drama Pavilions at the MBH Vienna Theatre.in April 2001 Pavilions premiered at the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade, directed by Alisa Stojanovic and, the same year, at the National Theatre in Skoplje, directed by Srdjan Janicijevic. In October 2002, at the Vienna Theatre, the same drama premiered, directed by Zijah Sokolovic. The anthology of poems titled The Dog That Ate the Sun was published by Flavio Rigonat, in Belgrade, in April 2001 .The anthology came out in three editions. Her second play God Had Mercy on Us -Tracks which earned her a Royal Court Summer Residency for Emerging Playwrights in London, was also published in „Theater Heute", and staged in Poland and Germany. The opening night of Tracks was in Belgrade, in November 2002, at the Yugoslav Drama Theatre, directed by Slobodan Unkovski. in June 2004 the drama Tracks was awarded a Special Prize at the Sterijino pozorje festival. In late June, 2004, the Yugoslav Drama Theatre took part in the Festival of New Drama in Wiesbaden with the play Tracks, whose text was published in "Theater Heute" the same year. In September 2004, Milena Markovic participated in the project "SWITCH", the exchange between the Nordic and Balkan countries, with the reading of her poetry in Stockholm and GQteborg. From December 2004 to January 2005, she wrote a screenplay for the short documentary film The Miners' Opera, in the Serbian town of Bor, directed by Oleg Novkovic. February 11,2005 saw the opening of her new drama The Wood Glitters at the Schauspielhaus theatre in Zurich, in October 2005, she won the "Borislav Mihajlovic Mihiz" prize for her plays. Her drama The Doll Ship

THE DOLL SHIP