Dušan Jovanović

Dušan Jovanović

Born: 01.10.1939
Education:
Graduated French and English languages and literatures at the Faculty of Philology, University of Ljubljana, 1958-62
Studied Theatre Directing, Academy of Theatre Arts, University of Ljubljana, 1964-68
Present Position:
Retired. Teaches Playwriting at the Academy of Theatre Arts, University of Ljubljana.
Member of a board of Slovene Film Fund
Previous Positions:
Teaught Theatre Directing and Acting at the Academy of Theatre Arts, University of Ljubljana.
President of Presern's Foundation (2005-2008)
Co-founder and Director of Pupilija Ferkeverk Theatre in Ljubljana, 1968-69
Co-founder and Director of GLEJ experimental Theatre, Ljubljana, 1970-1973
Freelance theatre director and playwright, 1973-76 and 1987-89
Artistic Director, Slovensko Mladinsko Theatre, Ljubljana (1976-1987)
In 1989 initiator and co-editor of EUROMASKE, the european theatre quaterly, 1990- spring 91
Artistic director of Cultural Month Ljubljana 1997

Works published and produced:
Madmen; Stamps and Emilia; The Life of Provincial Playboys after World War 2; Generations; Victims of Fashion; Act a Brain Tumor and Air Pollution; Liberation of Skopje; Karamazovs; The Military Secret; Victor or the Day of Youth; The Soothsayer; The Wall, the Lake; Don Juan in Agony; Antigone; The Puzzle of Courage; Era una Volta nel Teatro (one act); Who's Singing Sisyphus? Karajan C; Clinics Kozarcky, Exhibitionist.
Revelations (2008) will be produced in 2010 by MGL Ljubljana.

Plays published in collections and separate volumes, in antologies of slovene and yugoslav drama and in literary and theatre magazines in Slovenian, Serbocroat, English, Polish, German, Hungarian, Check, Italian, French, Macedonian and Slovak.
Some plays adopted for radio and produced and aired by yugoslav and foreign radio stations (Italy, Austria, Germany, Israel)
TV Slovenia produced TV series »Weekend« and some TV plays.
Published 3 TV plays
Dramatisations of novels for stage (Dostoievsky, Tolstoy, Vladimir Bartol)
Collaboration on several full length feature films.

Films:
Screenplays for feature films Sun for two and Felix (director – Božo Šprajc)
Writer: short film Gratinated Brains Of Pupilija Ferkeverk (director Karpo Godina)
Dialogues: Masquerade (director Boštjan Hladnik)
Adaptations, dramaturgy: Odpadnik (director Božp Šprajc)
Actor: Sweet Dreams (director Sašo Podgoršek); When I close my eyes (director Franci Slak)

Prose:
Don Juan in Agony, a novel, Mladinska knjiga, 1956/56
Paberki (Bits), a collection of essays, knjiznica MGL, Ljubljana, 1996
Man:Woman, letters to a woman friend (with Manca Kosir), CZ, Ljubljana, 2000.
Saturday book, collection of essays, VZ, Ljubljana 2005
The world is Drama., Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana, 2007
Short stories, articles, essays, columns in various magazines.

Recent foreign publications:

Liberation of Skopje, selecton of 7 plays, published by Matica in Skopje, 2007
Slovene Theatre and Drama, four plays by slovene playwrights, Boozsky clinic by Dušan Jovanović, published by Peter Lang, London, 2007, The Exhibitionist, Vetrny mlyny, 2006, Brno, Military Secret (in anthology of eastern european drama :Voices before the fall), published by Segal Center, New York, 2009


Direction:

Theatre directing:
Directed over 150 plays of Yugoslav and foreign authors. (Cankar, Krleza, Nusic, Smole, Kovacevic, Hieng, Svetina, Seligo, Jesih, Ionesco, Vitrac, Schiller, Shakespeare, Buechner, Strindberg, Gorki, Chexov, Gombrowich, Havel, Shepard, Albee, O Neill, Moliere, Musset...) in the professional theatres of Ljubljana, Celje, Maribor, Nova Gorica, Triste, Sarajevo, Zenica, Zagreb, Belgrade, Subotica, Dubrovnik, St Etienne and Vienna).

Prizes and awards:
4 Sterija prizes of the Yugoslav National Drama Festival in Novi Sad for directing and playwriting;
3 Golden Wreath prizes for at the Sarajevo MESS Festival;
2 Bojan Stupica prizes for the best Yugoslav production of the year.
5 Borstnik prizes for directing at the Slovenian festival in Maribor;
A special Obie mention for Liberation of Skopje in New York, USA;
Gavella (Zagreb) playwriting award for Karamazovs;
Special Directing prize of the Bitef International Theatre Festival, Belgrade;
Silver Medail of the Cultural Olimpics in Abano Terme, Italy;
4 Slavko Grum prizes for playwriting at the Slovenian Drama Festival in Kranj;
Great Prešeren Prize of the Republic of Slovenia for directing and dramatic opus (1990);
City of Skopje award in 2007
Award »Marjan Rožanc« for best book of essays in 2008 for the book »The world is Drama«.

Fellowships:
Open Society Fund /New York Institute for Humanities, New York 1983
Gulliver, Felix Meritis foundation, Amsterdam

Lectures, Conferences, workshops:
Guest lectures at several Ex Yugoslav and American universities; also at Columbia and NYU in 2006, Martin E. Segal Theatre, New York, lecture »On fear«, 2006.
Readings in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2007 and Porto, Portugal, 2008
Participation at international conferences (On Cultural Diversity in Europe, Berlin 1990; Vienna Peace Conference, Verona Forum 1993, Gulliver Conference in Istambul, 1993, in Paris 1995)
Theatre Conferences (IETM conferences, European Drama Bienalle in Bonn, 1992, ITI World Congress in Muenich 1993, Culture in Balance, Antwerpen 1993), Intercult in Stockholm, 1998, ITI conference on Sophocles in Athens, 2004.