Tanja Šljivar is a playwright. She was born in Banja Luka, and studied dramaturgy in Belgrade, as well as applied theater studies in Giessen (Germany). Her plays were performed, published and staged in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BNP Zenica); Serbia (Atelje 212, National Theater Belgrade, National Theater Užice, BITEF Theater); Germany (Deutsches Theater Berlin, Schauspiel Stuttgart, Schauspiel Dortmund, Theater Paderborn, Maxim Gorky Theater Berlin, Theater Osnabrück), Poland, Finland, Croatia, Italy, Albania, Spain, Austria and Slovakia. In addition to plays, she also writes screenplays, short stories, theoretical texts, librettos (Staatsoper Stuttgart) and texts for visual arts projects. She is the winner of Sterija Prize for the text of a contemporary drama, as well as two “Miodrag Žalica” Awards and the “Borislav Mihajlović Mihiz” Award. During 2019, she worked as the Artistic Director of Drama at the National Theater in Belgrade. She was a guest of literary and screenwriting residencies in Split, Pristina, Vienna, Graz, Prague, Budapest, Majorca, Berlin and Bucharest. She teaches dramatic writing as an assistant professor at the FDU in Belgrade, and as a guest at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka.

She published her first novel in the spring of 2026 with Suhrkamp Verlag in Berlin.

Bojan Đorđev (Belgrade, 1977) is a theater director from Belgrade, educated in theater and art theory in Belgrade at Faculty of Drama Arts and Amsterdam at DasArts. In Belgrade (Atelje 212, Bitef Theatre, CZKD, Little Theatre “Duško Radović”, JDP, National Theatre), Zagreb (ZKM), and Graz (Steirische Herbst), he has staged texts by T. Šljivar, G. Ferčec, I. Sajko, A. Celestini, V. Woolf, H. Guibert, E. Jelinek, and J. Joyce, as well as four operas, including J. Cocteau/P. Glass’s Les Enfants Terribles. In his independent performance practice, he explores the performative formats of Marxist thought, the artistic and cultural heritage of the left, and experimental textual forms. In addition to Belgrade, he has presented his work in Berlin, Brussels, Amsterdam, New York, Shanghai, Vienna, Zurich, Lisbon, Zagreb, Rijeka, and Ljubljana…

He is one of the founders of the platform Walking Theory and the TkH journal for Performing Arts Theory (2001-2017). He co-curated the 21st Nadežda Petrović Memorial in Čačak with Siniša Ilić in 2022; Serbian exhibition at the 14th Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space in Prague with Maja Mirković and Siniša Ilić in 2019; and Liquid Becomings – European Pavilion ECF 2024 Belgrade-Lisbon.