Biography of Tena Stivicic

Born in Zagreb, Croatia. She graduated from the Deparm~ent of Dramaturgy at the Academy of Drama Art in Zagreb, and then completed an MA in Writing for Performance at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She took part in Future Perfect, the Paines Plough Young Writers Programme and the Royal Court's 50th Anniversary season, and BBC Bursary for young writers. Her new play Fireflies was commissioned by the National Theatre Studio in London. Her plays Can't Escag,e Sundays,Perceval,Psssst,Two of Us,Goldoni Terminus and Fragile! have been produced in Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Germany, Switzerland, Slovakia, Greece, Italy and the UK. Fragile! was awarded the Special Jury Award at Marulovi Dani Festival, Croatia; Best Play at Dani Satire Festival, Zagreb, Croatia; Best Play at the Borstnikova Srezanja in Slovenia; and the Special Jury Award forTheatre Innovation at Male Scene Festival, Croatia. In 2007, she co-wrote the play Ptjona no! 1918 [Drunken Night 1918] with her father, lvo ~tivi&, for UlyssesTheatre,Zagreb.Tena's latest project, Goldoni Terminus, was shown in July 2007 at the Venice Biennale. She lives in London and writes in English and Croatian.