Biography
Graduated at the University of Arts in Belgrade - Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Directing Department in 1976. Since then he has been continually working as a theatre, TV and radio director. He has directed over fifty plays by international and domestic authors all over Yugoslavia (W. Shakespeare, Ö. von Horvath. J.M. Symge, C. Fry, N. Erdman, H. Müller, B. Behan, N. Machiavelli, P. Shaffer, F. Kafka, etc). For these plays he has received a great number of theatrical awards.
He is employed as a director at the Culture-Art Program of Radio Television of Serbia - Belgrade TV primarily focusing on drama programs (plays "Hot Drops", "Genealogy of a Waltz", "Life is a March", "Jill and John", "Home", "Tartuffe", "Paradox", "Golden Fleece", "Hey,Dude", "Two Smells of Roses", "Bora Under Occupation","Merchant of Venice", "Measure for Measure", "Happy Easter", "Thy Neighbor", series "Handless Broom", "Funny and Other Stories"), educational programs (series "Dream House"/Yearly RTS award for theatrical production 1994/, "Something More", "Triptych"). A large part of his creative work on television involved Music Department productions - he was especially successful in producing stage-musical TV shows ("I am François - That's my Punishment", series "Chamber TV Scene", TV Ballets "Kalemegdan Divertimento", "Masses", and "Tango - The Pulse of the XX century" etc.), series "Saturday Evening", "Final Exam", "Three Seasons", a series of musical portraits "Portrait of a Musician as a Young Man", "Heaven and Soul", a large number of live and delayed broadcasts of classical music concerts (e.g. concerts of L.Pavarotti, J.Carreras, A.Bocelli, Kiri Te Kanawa, performances of Nederlands Danse Theatre), etc. With special enthusiasm he researches the possibilities of visualizing classical music through a series of TV spots as a special genre.
With his TV productions he has participated at several television festivals such as "Golden Albena" (Albena), "Golden Prague" (Prague), Prix Italia, "Vienna TV award", Dance Screen (Cologne), Video Dance (Paris), 'Golden Chest' (Plovdiv), Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, FIPATEL (Biarritz) etc. For his TV program "Life is a March" he has received the first prize in the "variety show and cabaret" category at the International TV Festival in Albena (Bulgaria) in 2003. At the same festival he has won the first prize in the classical music category for his show "Heaven and Soul" in 2004. He won a prize as the best director of Radio Television of Serbia in 2004.
