Maria Milisavljević is an internationally acclaimed playwright and translator. Her plays have been translated into English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Serbian, Bulgarian, Japanese and Korean.
From 2013 to 2020, she was writer-in-residence at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, Canada. Her plays have been performed at renowned European theatres such as the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Burgtheater in Vienna and the Residenztheater in Munich, as well as internationally, including theatres in New York, London, Tokyo, Brazil and Mexico. In 2013, Maria Milisavljević won the Kleist Prize for Young Playwrights for her play BRANDUNG. Her play BEBEN was nominated for the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis 2018 and won the Heidelberger Stückemarkt Autorenpreis 2017 and the Else Lasker Schüler Stückpreis 2017. Among the authors whose works Maria Milisavljević has translated into German are Anne Carson, Sam Max and Gracie Gardner. In addition to her literary activities, Maria Milisavljević successfully completed a PhD in English Cultural Studies. She is also a founding member of the Association of Theatre Authors (VTheA) and co-founder of the artists' collective Ministerium für Mitgefühl (www.m-f-m.info).
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