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NIGEI OSBORNE is a composer, professor of music and former Dean of music at Edinburgh University. Internationally renowned for his work he has composed a number of operas; Severi Words for Radio Suisse Romande, Hells Angels for The Opera Factory, The Electrificarían ofthe Soviet Union for Glyndebourne, Wuppertal and The Hebbel Theatre, Berlin, Terrible Mouth for the English National opera, thè Almeida Theatre, Sarajevo for The Opera Factory and Europa for The National Theatre in Sarajevo, and most recentiy The Piano Tuner forThe Royal Opera House Covent Garden. As well as writing operas, Nigel Osborne has composed music for dance and for the theatre and has co-operated with directors such as David Freeman, Peter Sellars and Lenka Udovicki. He has won many international music awards. SRETEN MOKROVIC is member ofthe Gavelia theatre in Zagreb. Since his Student days he has been seeking acting experiences in non-institutional ensembles. He has been performing in various Companies and at many festiva Is, always ready as an actor for inner adventures. SVEN MEDVESEK was born in 1965 in Zagreb. After graduating from the Academy of Dramatic Arts he is a member ofthe HNKin Zagreb for three years, and after that he Works as a freelance artist. In theatre, among other roles, he embodied Romeo, Troil, Oedipus and Mrvek. He occupied the TV screen in the series Conductors and Musidans, Zlatko and Detectives, Hallo aus Berlin. He acted in films Mirto Is Learning Statistics, The Seventh Chronide, Mondo Bobo (Zlatna Arena award), Winter in Rio, Sank Graveyard, Infection, Libertas, Memory Thief, Obsession... KSENIJA MARINKOVIC was born in Virovitica in 1966 where she finished high school. Ever since she was eight until entering the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, she was involved in the Virovitica theatre as an amateur actress. As a Student ofthe Academy she started to collaborate with the Gavelia theatre and thè Histrioni troupe. After graduating from the Academy she spent one year with theTeatar u gostima and has been employed with the ZKM theatre in Zagreb since 1989 where she created some of her most important roles: Mowglie in The Jungle Book, Nausikaja in Ulysses and Son, Harpa in Harpa, Irina in Three Sisters, Elvira in lnsektarij,The Nurse in Jelka kodlvanovih, Elena Sergejevna in Elena Sergejevna, Dolly in Ana Karenina, Hanka in The Safe Area. Some of here significant roles were created outside her theatre and she has starred in some ten TV and feature films. She also played Goneril in the Ulysses Theatre's King Lear. NINA VIOLIC was born in Rijeka in 1972. She entered the Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1991. She acted in about thirty theatre performances and about ten movies. Major roles in theatre: Helija in After Hamlet on Dubrovnik Summer festival, directed by Kresimir Dolencic, Anka in Kraljevo in Zagreb Youth Theatre, directed by Paolo Mageill, Agafja in Marriage in HNK Ivan pl. Zajc, directed by Jernej Lorenci, Erna in KazimirandKarolina, directed by Paolo Magelli in HNK Ivan pl.Zajc, Masha in Three Sisters in &TD, directed by Dario Harjacek. In 2002 she staged thè performance Work of Borosana on Yourself in &TD. She received several awards for the roles in theatre and film. LINDA BEGONJA was born in 1972 in Zadar. In 1990 she enters the School of Croatian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philology in Zadar, and in 1992 she becomes a Student of acting atthe Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. Since 1996 she is a member of thè ensemble of the Satirical Theatre "Kerempuh". Among others, she collaborated with Zagreb Youth Theatre, Theatre Exil, Theatre Ulysses, and with directors: B. Violic, M. Nadarevic, P. Magelli, A. Popovski, E. Miler, B. Brezovec and others, She received several awards for her work.