Maria Milisavljević is an internationally successful playwright and translator. Her plays have been translated into English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Serbian, Bulgarian, Friulian, Japanese and Korean, among others. From 2013 to 2020, she was a resident playwright at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, Canada. Her texts have been performed at renowned European theatres such as the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Residenztheater Munich, the Schauspielhaus Zürich and internationally at theatres in New York, London, Tokyo, Brazil and Mexico. Maria Milisavljević won the Kleist Prize for Young Playwrights in 2013 for her play ‘Brandung’. Her play ‘Beben’ was nominated for the Mülheim Drama Prize 2018, as well as being honoured with the 2017 Heidelberg Play Market Author Award and the 2017 Else Lasker Schüler Play Prize. Among the authors Maria Milisavljević has translated into German are Anne Carson, Sam Max and Gracie Gardner. In addition to her literary work, Maria Milisavljević successfully completed a doctorate in English cultural studies. She is also a founding member of the Association for Theatre Authors (VTheA) and co-founder of the artists’ collective “Ministry of Compassion” (www.m-f-m.info). Maria Milisavljević lives in Berlin.