Biljana Srbljanović is author, playwright, tenured professor at the University of Arts, Belgrade, chair of the Department of Dramaturgy at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, PhD Student Theory of Dramatic Arts, Media, and Culture – Cinema Studies. She is a Fullbright alumna 2002/2003., when she was a guest lecturer at NYU, Tisch School of the Arts in New York. Further, she was a visiting professor at the Universität für angewandte Kunst in Vienna and Academy Paolo Grassi in Milano.
Biljana Srbljanović has written more than 10 plays, all published translated in 25 languages and premiered more than 100 times in theaters all over the globe. She is six times winner of the Sterija Awards for a new play, the most important national recognition for playwriting, as well as the Joakim Vujić award for lifetime achievement in Theatre, City of Belgrade Award, Slobodan Selenić and Ernst Toller Awards and Premio Europa – New Theatrical Reality Award.
She is author and creator of a TV series “Open Doors” that marked a turn in a contemporary television program in Serbia, with a long-lasting legacy. Furthermore she worked as author and co-presenter of more than 200 episodes of one of the first Serbian serialized podcast “Pleasure in the text”, an hour long interpretation and analysis of contemporary cinema and screen media texts that is in its 5th year of broadcasting.
For more than a decade, Biljana Srbljanović has been a program editor at Heartefact Fund, an independent regional cultural organization dedicated to fostering a creative, critical and responsible rethinking of emerging artistic, social and political issues and phenomena at national, international level. She is a permanent jury member of the most important regional Competition for the best contemporary socially engaged texts.
She is an activist for LGBTI+, women and minority rights for which she has received several awards: Sarajevo Days award, Winning of Freedom Award, Icebreaker of the Year etc. She published many critical commentary in national and international newspapers (Blic, Javni Servis, Peščanik, Le Monde, La Reppublica, Der Standard, Der Spiegel etc). Srbljanović was the first godmother of Belgrade LGBT Pride 2014, recognized as an most important ally of the year and recipient of the French Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres).
As author she is part of the Fabulamundi network and takes in the project Fabulamundi. Playwriting Europe. New Voices.