Expert Jury of 25th Kotor Festival of Theatre for Children
Kotor Festival of Theatre for Children will celebrate its 25th jubilee edition – a quarter of a century of its existence. Main Theatre Program, which will be held from July 1-12, 2017 will be the richest so far. The audience will have an opportunity to see and enjoy twenty professional performances of various genres for both children and youth. Expert Jury of 25th Kotor Festival of Theatre for Children, whose members are Ljubivoje Ršumović, Maja Mrđenović and Milivoje Mišo Obradović, will award the best performers.
Ljubivoje Ršumović
LJUBIVOJE RŠUMOVIĆ was born in the village of Ljubiš, on mountain Zlatibor, on July 3, 1939. He was schooled in Ljubiš, Čajetina, Užice, and Belgrade, where he graduated in Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philology, at the University of Belgrade in 1965. He began to write at an early age, while he was in elementary school. His first poems were published in 1957 while he still attended high school. He has written over 70 books, most of them for children, and has worked on radio, television, and documentary series. His work has been published in many languages and has won numerous awards throughout the world. These awards include the Golden Pen of Belgrade, and the Council for Education and Child Care of Serbia Award, Neven. His Primer of Children’s Rights, which details and explains children’s rights to children as detailed in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, won the UNESCO Prize for Children’s and Young People’s Literature in the Service of Tolerance at the World Competition for Books in 1996. Also, he was one of the strongest advocates of the idea of founding our Festival.
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Maja Mrđenović
MAJA MRĐENOVIĆ, theatrologist and theater critic, graduated from the Department of General Literature and Theory of Literature at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology, where she received her MA in 2011. In 2015, she was awarded the title Master of Theater Production at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts Cetinje. Since 2016, she has been teaching at the Faculty of Montenegrin Language and Literature-University in Cetinje. She regularly published texts from theatrology, theater production, and theater cultural policy. She was an editor of the Theoretical Program and moderator of talks about the performances of the our Festival, where she designed, organized and moderated conferences and symposiums on theater themes, and conducted talks on performances with artists, participants, both adults and children's audiences. Also, she acted as juror on various drama text contests and FIAT festival in 2014, and she is the selector of Barski ljetopis drama program for 2017. She is also one of the originators and editors of the online journal of the Associaton of Theater Critics and Theatrology of Montenegro - Peripetija.me, the only professional theater journal in Montenegro.
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Milivoje Mišo Obradović
MILIVOJE MIŠO OBRADOVIĆ was born in Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, on April 2, 1982. He studied at the Academy of Arts, at the University of Novi Sad, in the class of the professor Vida Ognjenović and professor Ljuboslav Majer. He is the member of the acting ensemble of the Montenegrin National Theatre. He is known for his movie-roles in Lokalni vampir (2011), The Heart of the Wise Lives in the House of Sorrow (2009) and The kids from the Marx and Engels Street (2014). Co-author of the illustrated book How to grow great people - Njegoš for children. The winner of numerous awards, including: The Annual Award of the Montenegrin National Theatre, for roles in plays Good Death and Lexicon Yu mythology; Special Award for achievement in acting in plays Faith, Love and Hope and Lucrezia alias Ždero, at the Biennale of Montenegrin Theater in 2012; Special Acting Award for the role in the play Good Tree at the festival Zvezdarište in 2013; The award for best supporting role in the film The Boys from Marx and Engels Street (2014) at the Mojkovac Film Autumn Festival, in 2015.
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