Ivan Medenica

Ivan Medenica is a native of Belgrade, Serbia. He defended his PhD dissertation, entitled Actualisation and Deconstruction as Models of Directing Classics, at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts at the University of Belgrade. He is Associated Professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, where he teaches the history of world drama and theatre, and Head of the Department of Theory and History. He regularly publishes articles in both national and international journals. Ivan Medenica has been Chairman or Co-Chairman of five international symposiums of theatre critics and scholars, organised by Sterijino Pozorje Festival in Novi Sad and the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC). He has participated in a number of international conferences and given guest lectures at Berlin’s Humboldt University, Yale School of Drama and the University of Cluj, Romania. An active theatre critic, he is a five-time winner of the national award for best theatre criticism. From 2003 to 2007, he was Artistic Director of Sterijino Pozorje, Serbia’s leading theatre festival, to which he brought some important structural changes, especially in the area of internationalisation. From 2001 to 2012, Medenica was one of the main editors of the journal Teatron. Between 2011 and 2013, he was a fellow in the International Research Center ‘Interweaving Performance Cultures’ at the Freie Universität, Berlin. He is a member of the International Association of Theatre Critics’ Executive Committee and the Director of its international conferences. He is also a member of the editorial board of Critical Stages, the web journal of the Association. In October 2015, he became Artistic Director of Bitef Festival.