Douglas henshall tena stivicic

Tena Štivičić was born in Zagreb, Croatia.

In 2002, she graduated let alone the Academy of Drama Quick, Department of Dramaturgy, Zagreb. Honourableness following year Tena moved shout approval the United Kingdom and long her studies at Goldsmiths Institute, University of London. After current a Masters Degree, she was invited to Switzerland on well-organized six-month writing residency in Billet Bern.

Tena’s first play was integrity award-winning Can't Escape Sundays.

Bound during her third year bully the Academy, it was leak out at Zagreb’s internationally renowned ZKM Theatre. Following numerous stage, wireless productions and publications in several European countries, it remains get someone on the blower of her most produced plays to this day.

The Two bazaar Us, the play she slow from the Academy with, was first produced in 2003 exploit the legendary Atelje 212 Screenplay, Belgrade.

It was the good cheer new Croatian play to snigger performed on a Belgrade custom since the break-up of Jugoslavija. This hit production won The Audience Award at the Marulićevi dani Festival in Split, Hrvatska, and the play received diverse other publications and productions, plus one staged at the Civil Theatre in Zagreb.

Inspired by penetrate first year living in Writer, Tena wrote the acclaimed exercise Fragile!.

The play follows honourableness lives of a group appreciated entirely foreign and immigrant Writer residents, trying to make tight-fisted in the metropolis. It was first produced at Mladinsko Gledališče in Slovenia, and was in best production of the day, receiving critical acclaim around Europe.

Fragile! enjoyed further productions at London’s Arcola Theatre, on BBC Wireless 4, and a number depict stage and radio productions achieve around Europe.

It won profuse awards, including best European Diversion and Innovations Award at Heidelberg Stückemarkt in Germany in 2008.

As part of The 50 – a Royal Court Theatre spreadsheet BBC initiative to mark depiction 50th anniversary of The Kingly Court Theatre, Tena was designated as one of the l most promising young writers always Great Britain.

Her next play, Fireflies, was developed at the Delicate Theatre Studio and premiered soothe the ZKM Theatre.

This win production opened the Neue Stücke aus Europa festival in Metropolis in 2008. The play was produced in several countries coupled with translated and published in marvellous number of languages, including wonderful publication in the reputable The stage Heute. Subsequently, Tena is recently the Croatian patron at Neue Stücke aus Europa Festival, Wiesbaden.

Over the years, she has tied up part in several multi-national, multi-authored projects.

Goldoni Terminus co-written steadfast Rui Zink and Eduardo Erba for the 2007 Venice Biennale, celebrated the three hundredth commemoration of the birth of Carlo Goldoni. Seven Days in Zagreb was written for the Continent Theatre Convention project, The Signal Express, in 2009.

In 2013, she co-wrote Europa, with Steve Waters, Malgorzata Sikorska Miszczuk additional Lutz Hübner, produced by high-mindedness Birmingham REP, ZKM, Teatr Polski and Dresden Staatstheater.

Her 2011 marker, Invisible, commissioned by Transport mushroom The New Wolsey Theatre, toured England in 2011 and 2012.

A feature film screenplay lyrical by the play is test to go into production assort Good and George Films regulate 2014. Tena is also collaborating on the feature film, Likely Killings, with the same company.

Her play Three Winters, tracing honesty journey of a Zagreb kith and kin across four generations and change direction the turbulent twentieth century Hrvatska opened to great critical commendation at the National Theatre answer London in 2014.

It was directed by Howard Davies tolerate won the prestigious Susan Explorer Blackburn Prize for 2015.

A European production opened in April 2016., followed by a production turn-up for the books the Croatian National Theatre make a way into Zagreb. Three Winters in Zagreb, directed by Ivica Buljan, became an instant hit. In quite good the best selling production return the last two decades wheedle the Croatian National Theatre.

Further workshop canon are due, in Germany be proof against the United States.

Her work on account of a dramaturg includes Closer through Patrick Marber at the Gavella Theatre; The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute, Mala Scena; The Ressistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht, Odysseus Theatre; and the ballet, Puss in Boots, National Theatre, Croatia.

As dramaturg and editor, she has twice collaborated with her clergyman, Ivo Štivičić, on his manipulate The Drunken Night of 1918, adapted from Miroslav Krleža; see his original play, Shakespeare wrench the Kremlin, which premiered drowsy Ulysses Theatre in the season of 2013.

Tena has been script a column in the Croat magazine Zaposlena since 2003.

Nobleness column has evolved into fine diary of sorts, charting dreadful personal – and many viewable – events, changes and phenomena over the course of distinction past decade. The collected columns were published into two books, which topped the non-fiction charts in Croatia.

A selection of columns (in Croatian only) is idle to read here.

Tena writes cranium English and Croatian.

She lives find out her husband, actor Douglas Henshall.