Maria Milisavljević is an internationally successful playwright and translator. Her plays have been translated into English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Serbian, Bulgarian, Japanese and Korean, among others. From 2013 to 2020, she was a resident playwright at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, Canada. Her texts 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 at theatres in New York, London, Tokyo, Brazil and Mexico, among others. Maria Milisavljević won the Kleist Prize for Young Playwrights in 2013 for her play BRANDUNG. Her play BEBEN was nominated for the Mülheim Playwright's Prize 2018 and honoured with the Author's Prize of the Heidelberg Play Market 2017 and the Else Lasker Schüler Play Prize 2017. Among the authors Maria Milisavljević has translated into German are Anne Carson, Sam Max and Gracie Gardner. In addition to her literary work, Maria Milisavljević successfully completed a doctorate in English cultural studies. She is also a founding member of the Association for Theatre Authors (VTheA) and co-founder of the artists' collective “Ministerium für Mitgefühl” (www.m-f-m.info).
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