EHO ANIMATO - Key Persons
Ana Konstantinović (1987) is a theater director, founder and curator of Eho Animato. She holds a degree in theater and radio directing from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, where she is currently finishing artistic doctoral studies.
She worked in the Student's City Cultural Center as a coordinator of several festivals. She was also coordinator of the International Federation for Theater Research World Congress in Belgrade in 2018. Currently, she is working at the National Theater in Belgrade, where she is the program editor of Platform, a platform for audience development and education of performing arts professionals.
She participated in numerous workshops and international projects like Terre Promesse / Bussole Rotte (Milan, Italy), Europe Unlimited (Hannover, Germany), Augenblick mal! (Berlin, Germany). She has directed theater performances, radio plays, public readings and performances, such as In a Glass Ball (Cultural Center Pavilion, Hannover), The Tempest (Regional Theater Novi Pazar), The One and the Other (Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade), Along the City Skies (Youth Center of Belgrade), I Bei Tempi and Home (Academy Paolo Grassi, Milan, Italy).
She stands for process theater, community inclusion and constant exploration of form and content.
Within Eho animato, she worked on the following projects:
Milica Stefanović (1986) holds a degree in acting from the Academy of Art in Belgrade, class of Prof. Nebojša Dugalić.
She also graduated from the Moving Academy for Performing Arts (MAPA, Holland). She has attended numerous workshops, most notable being the years-long working with Scott Fielding (Michael Chekhov Method) and College Teatro program of the Venice Biennal where she collaborated with Needcompany and director Jan Lauwers.
Since 2011, she has been a member of French dance troupe Lamaison, led by director Coraline Lamaison. Within the troupe, she worked as an actress in projects Vulerables and La mort des sentiments. From 2009 till 2014, Milica worked in the Heartefact Foundation on art production and as and actress in its productions. In 2015, with a group of colleagues, she founded the Teatarmaher theater production that deals with exploring new theatrical expressions with an accent on physical theater. Going Out was their first production, focused on exploring the escapist sentiments of young people in Serbia.
Milica's most notable performances include Hypermnesia (dir. Selma Spahić), Finger (dir. Ana Tomović), Moving (dir. Jovana Tomić), and she was awarded Best Performance Award at the Joakim Vujićfestival for Our Ancestors, Eat With Us (dir. Stevan Bodroža).
She also appeared in several films and TV series, most notably Morning Will Change Everything (dir. Goran Stanković, Vladimir Tagić and Milica Tomović, 2019), Asymmetry (dir. Maša Nešković, 2017) and When I'm Home (dir. Ivana Todorović, 2018).
Within Eho animato, she worked on:
Katarina Dimitrijević (1986, Belgrade) enrolled to the Acting department of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade in 2006, in the class of Prof. Vladimir Jevtović and graduated in 2010. She is the recipient of Mata Milošević Award, the best acting student award.
Katarina is currently employed as a collaborator in children and youth theater Little Theater Duško Radović, where she had numerous roles in performances, such as Cinderella, Bon ton, Gulliver's Travels, The Story of a Magic Stone and others.
She appeared in several TV series and commercials. She was a host of the closing ceremony of the Belgrade Universiade in 2009. She has attended numerous workshops in the fields of theater, stage movement, storytelling, etc.
She is also active as a pedagogue. She is a co-founder of the acting studio Maska, where she has worked with children and youth since 2011. Within the studio, she has produced 17 youth performances.
Besides her work in institutional theaters, she is active on Belgrade's independent scene as well. She has worked with Eho animato since its founding in 2011, and she took part in:
Nevena Paunović graduated from the department of Theater and Radio Production of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in 2007. Between 2005 and 2009, she worked as the executive producer and public relations manager in Little Theater Duško Radović. In this period, she was also on specialization in The Royal Drama Theater Dramaten in Stockholm, as a holder of the Young Talents Found stipend.
She worked in Bitef festival as an international troupes leader from 2008 till 2015.
As a holder of the Erasmus Mundus scholarship, Nevena finished the International Performance Research masters program at the University of Warwick, England, and University of Amsterdam. In cooperation with the Youth Center of Belgrade, Cultural Center Rex and Horkestar choir, she produced the regional Festival of Self-organized Choirs in 2011.
She worked as an assistant on the European program Culture 2007 - 2013 in the Point of Cultural Contact of Serbia office within the Ministry of Culture in 2012 and 2013.
Since 2015, she has been working independently as a manager of numerous podcasts in the fields of philosophy, documentary film, music, business and personal development (Future Thinkers, Factual America, OutsideVoices, The Lone Star Plate, etc.).
Besides professional engagements, Nevena was also a member of several bands that she performed with in music festivals in the country and has published an EP.
Tamara Popović (1997) graduated from the Management and Production Department of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade in October, 2018.
She is a founder and organizer of first concerts for children from the Children's Shelter, which have been taking place in the Sixth High School in Belgrade since 2012. She started the project Your World, Your Creation (2015) - focused on high school students and connecting their interests within performing arts.
She worked as a producer / organizer in numerous festivals, such as: The Auteur Film Festival (2015 - 2017), Beldocs (2019), Bitef (2016), Festum (2016, 2018), Doc 'n' Rhythm (2016). She was an assistant at the acting workshop of the Summer Art School of the University of Arts Belgrade (2016). In the 13 th Festival of International Student Theater FIST (2018), she was the director of the socially responsible program and social media manager.
She worked as a production assistant at the Youth Center of Belgrade from June until November 2018.
Tamara currently works at the National Theater in Belgrade in positions of protocol organization, PR and social media management.
She is also a singer / songwriter signed for Universal Music Serbia and she performs on stages across the country and the region. She also writes songs for other artists and occasionally performs as part of the hip-hop collective Zicer Inc.
Višnja Vujović (1985, Raška) is an architect and set designer. She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade in 2009.
Her main interest is the conception of space in performing arts and its relation to set design and new media. She has attended several workshops dealing with these topics, including the Jan Pappelbaum's workshop, but also led several workshops for children and youth.
Her career as a set designer has been developing in Serbia, North Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. She worked on William Shakespeare's Othello (2019) in Bosnian National Theatre Zenica, Fernando Pessoa inspired Fragments of Disquiet (2019) in the National Theater Belgrade, Seagull by A. P. Chekhov (2018) in Macedonian National Theater in Skopje, Biljana Srbljanović's Belgrade Trilogy (2017) in Kino Kultura in Skopje, Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen (2016) in Belgrade Drama Theater, The Tempest by William Shakespeare (2015) in the Regional Theater Novi Pazar, After the Play (2014) in Belgrade Youth Center.
Within Eho animato, Višnja worked on:
Željko Maksimović (1985) is an actor, translator and TV presenter from Belgrade, Serbia. He has been a member of Eho Animato since its establishment in 2011.
In 2018, he was the coordinator of the International Federation for Theatre Research World Congress in Belgrade, an event that gathered over 900 international scholars.
Besides performing in Belgrade's institutionalized theatres (Atelje 212, Yugoslav Drama Theater, Belgrade Drama Theater, Theater Vuk, Dadov), he has also worked independently in performances such as Borderless Lines - awarded Best Actor at the 2008 FIST festival in Belgrade, Fragments of Disquiet, Borderline Beauty - performed in Drugstore techno club, Best Intentions and The Glass Menagerie.
Since 2014, he has occasionally worked in Prague, Czech Republic, with the award-winning directorial duo SKUTR on performances The Tempest, a Divadelní noviny Award for Best Alternative Performance nominee, Walls and Handbags - Divadelní noviny Award for Dance and Motion Theatre, A Midsummer's Night Dream at the Summer Shakespeare Festival and with choreographer Adela Stodolova on Heiner Miller's Description of a Picture. Since 2019, he has been working with artist Ivana Ivković, participating in her performances (Un)protected Witness and In Him We Trust.
Željko has appeared in several TV shows in Serbia, and has been a host of Cultural Centre, a central Radio-television of Serbia's weekly cultural program.
He has also translated essays on theatre theory and plays by Filip Grujić, Dino Pešut and Tanja Šljivar, the latter in collaboration with a New York based artist Cory Tamler, published in the US by Asymptote Journal, The Mercurian and The Offing.
His work with Eho animato include: