ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Marjan Todorovic Maksa (1979, Niš), graduated Acting at the Faculty of Arts in Pristina in 2006, in the class of prof. Svetozar Rapajic.

He is a permanent member of the Drama Department of the National Theater in Nis.

He has played over twenty roles in theater, television and film.

He is the author of the drama “Ees Fashion”, “Zer0”, “Bridges”, “Mmm … where were we”.

Awards:

Nis Art Foundation, second prize in the competition for a short drama on the topic of Nis, for authoring of the one-act play “Ees Fashion”;

VALENTINE’S DAY 2010, fourth prize for the most beautiful love poem of the SPARK artists’ association, Velika Gorica, Croatia;

International Literary Festival “Days of Poetry”, Novi Sad, first prize in the competition for the best slam of Serbian poets in 2010 and 2014 and second prize in 2012;

The Hartefact Foundation, Belgrade, the drama “Zer0”, together with other top four in the competition for a contemporary drama text, was printed in the collection “Workers Die Singing”;

Sterija’s Pozorje, Novi Sad, the drama “Mmm … where were we” is one of the top five in the competition for a contemporary domestic drama text.

The text “Ees Fashion”, along with two other awarded texts, was staged in the form of a triptych in 2008 under the common name “Selected and Destroyed”, directed by Kokan Mladenovic. The play “Mmm … where were we” is his second authored drama staged at the National Theater in Nis.