Milica Stefanović

Milica Stefanović , Serbia, in 1986, she graduated in Acting from the Academy of Arts in Belgrade, where she studied under Professor Nebojša Dugalić.

   She is also a graduate of MAPA (Moving Academy for Performing Arts) in the Netherlands. Her further training includes numerous workshops, most notably her long-standing work with Scott Fielding in the Michael Chekhov Technique. She also participated in the College Teatro programme of the La Biennale di Venezia, where she collaborated with Needcompany and director Jan Lauwers.

    Since 2011, she has been a member of the French dance theatre company La Maison, led by director Coraline Lamaison. With the company, she has performed in the dance theatre productions Vunérables (Vulnerables) and La mort des sentiments (Death of Feelings), presented at venues including Théâtre Sorano–Jules Julien in Toulouse, Maison de la Danse in Lyon and Théâtre de la Ville in Paris. In 2015, she co-founded the theatre production company Teatarmaher, together with a group of fellow artists. The company explores new theatrical forms, with a particular focus on physical theatre. Her notable theatre credits include Hipermnezija (Hypermnesia), directed by Selma Spahić; Prst (Finger), directed by Ana Tomović; and Kretanje (Motion), directed by Jovana Tomić, Poša, directed by Marijа Mladenović. She received the Best Actress Award at the Joakim Vujić Festival for her performance in Naši preci, jedite sa nama (Our Ancestors, Eat with Us), directed by Stevan Bodroža.

   Her screen work includes roles in the television series Jutro će promeniti sve (Morning Changes Everything), Nečista krv (Impure Blood) and Smola (Resin), as well as in the films Karmadona and Niko ništa nije rekao (Nobody Said Anything). She also played Marija in Ivana Todorović’s short film Kad sam kod kuće (When I’m at Home), for which she received the Best Actress Award at the Socially Relevant Film Festival in New York and the Special Jury Award for Best Female Performance at the Forteca International Film Festival Perast (FIFFP).