Photo: Maj Pavček
I was born in 1955 in Ptuj, graduated from high school in Maribor, and earned my bachelor’s and doctoral degrees in dramaturgy from the University of Ljubljana’s Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT), where I also teach. I work as a dramaturg; I served as artistic director of the Glej Theater in Ljubljana and the SLG Celje; I have written theater reviews (partially collected in the book By All Accounts, 2015) and publish essays on theater and drama theory (the most recent collected in the books Theater Svnthesis, 2022, and Third Performance, 2023). I have also written prose, radio plays, dramatizations for the theater (e.g., Drejček and the Three Martians, 1981), and plays (The Dead at SNG Maribor, 2000). I have published thirteen poetry collections: Poem and Poems, 1977; A Wound in the Blood, a poetry and graphic portfolio with painter J. Matelič, 1983; Bohinjska Bela, 1984; Columbia/praefatio, visual poetry, 1984; In Silent Flow, 1993; Weavings, 2002; Inaudibility, 2005; Sentences on Breathing, 2010; I Expect Attention, 2014; The Theory of Nothing, 2018; The Boy and the Girl, poems for children, 2021; The Dog in Me, 2021; “Fance, Fance!”, 2025. I was nominated for the Grum Award (The Dead, 2001) and the Veronika Award (I Expect Attention, 2014), I received the Levstik Award for the collection of children’s poems The Boy and the Girl, 2021, and the Grün-Filipič Award at the Week of Slovenian Drama in Kranj for achievements in dramaturgy, 2025.
