PAOLO MAGELLI
Born in Prato, the very center of Toscana, at the end of the 1940s. His artistic development was influenced by Giorgio Strehler, to whom he served as assistant. In the early 1970s, together with Roberto Benigni, Pamela Villoresi, Severio Marconi, Francesco Nutti and Marcello Bartolli, he founded Teatro Studio del Teatro Metastasio. He studied directing and Slavic Studies, and after receiving a scholarship he went to Romania where he directed two plays with which he was invited to the Paris Festival Théâtre des Nations by Jean-Louis Barrault.
In Croatia, Magelli first appeared in 1974 with Mandragora by the Belgrade National Theatre at the Dubrovnik Summer Plays. In 1985 he moved to Zagreb, and in 1987 he directed Euripides’ Phoenician Women, the play which is now considered a classic. This was followed by Crazy Days, Nation, Great Magic, Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Platonov, Electra, Crime at the Goat Island, A Month in the Countryside. Kraljevo... He is the recipient of the “Vjesnik” prize for theatre arts “Dubravko Dujšin” in 2007 for Petty-Bourgeois Wedding. He has been directing in Germany, Italy, Hungary, Venezuela, Mexico, Switzerland, Colombia, Belgium, Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro and Israel.
Directions in Serbia (selection): YDT – Goldoni, The Holiday Trilogy, Shakespeare, King Lear, Von Horvat, Don Juan Comes Back from the War, Italian Night, Ibsen, Peer Gynt, Gorky, At the Bottom; Atelier 212 – Von Horvat, Tales from the Viennese Forest, At the Good Looks, Pirandello, Giants from the Mountain, Nenad Prokić, Metastabilni graal; NT Beograd – Shakespeare, As You Like It, Donizetti, Daughter of the Regiment (opera); Belgrade Drama Theatre – Schaffer, Amadeus, Todor Manojlović, Centrifugal Player, Božidar Zečević, Ale House; Theatre "Boško Buha" – Collodi, Pinocchio; SCC Belgrade – Brecht, Good Soul from Szechuan.
At Pozorje 1988, in the production of Macedonian National Theatre, he appeared as director of The Black Hole by Goran Stefanovski.

IGOR RAJKI was born in 1965 in Zagreb. He published stories for teenagers and adults in magazines and newspapers, and then books  as well: The Catalogue About Divine Messengers (2000), Rules About Creating Assumptions (2001), Bait for Ghosts (2003), Užasana (2005), Umoreske (2006), Science of Derision (2006), You Look Good (2008), and short-story collections Heavenly Semantics (2008) and Appearances (2008), Staircasing (2008), I Wouldn’t Talk About That (2008, co-author Boris Beck).
His essays are published in the virtual magazine Knjigomat, and a few of his radio-plays have been performed. The legend that in his books time is not lost, but gained, is true.

FILIP ŠOVAGOVIĆ was born in 1966 in Zagreb. He completed all the coursework in acting and TV and film directing at the Academy of Performance Arts in Zagreb. He works as a thatre, TV and film actor, journalist/columnist, film, theatre, video and internet director, screenwriter and producer. He publishes theatre and radio plays; he is the author of a series of prose fragments published in magazines. His plays, Zvonimir Zajc (1994, Croatian Radio, Prix Italia 1995), Brick (1999, RTV Eurovision Grand Prix 2001, Association of Croatian Performance Artists Prize 1999), Birdies (2001), Festivals (2003), and Jazz (2004; performed at the International Programme of Sterijino Pozorje in 2005), have been translated into many world languages, and have been performed in Split, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Subotica, Slavonski Brod, Vienna, Osnabruck, Constance, Bonn, Santiago de Chile and Bombay.
He has performed many roles on film and in theatre. He wrote screenplay and directed the film Pušća Bistra (2005). He has been professionally involved in film, TV and internet production since 2006. He is the editor and producer in Zona Sova d.o.o.
The greatest merit for Šovagović’s career as a writer, especially dramatist, goes to Paolo Magelli, who in CNT in Split and at the Split Summer set his texts Birdies, Brick and Festivals, Festivals…His texts were then performed at numerous distinguished European and World Festivals. In Gavella he directed his own Iliad 2001.

NINA MITROVIĆ was born in 1978 in Slavonski Brod. She received her B.A. in dramaturgy at the Academy of Performance Arts in Zagreb in 2005, and an M.A. in screenwriting at the London Film School in 2007.
She is the author of dramas and monodramas: Neigbourhood Upside-down (2002, the Prize Golden Laughter at the Days of Satire; published in the journal Scena 2-3/2004 by Sterijino Pozorje). Family in Dust (2003 prize at the Austrian competition “To Speak about Borders,” but refused the prize), When We the Dead Start Slaughtering Each Other (2004, prize Golden Laughter at the Days of Satire), This Bed is Too Short or Just Fragments, Prize Marul at the Marulić’s Days), Kolbaba and Brzojavko (2005), Big, Big Land of OZ and Fuck Look How Many of Us There Are (2008).
Her texts have been performed in Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Macedonia and Bosnia/Herzegovina. They have been publicly read in Berlin (Berliner Festspiele), London  (Soho Theatre) and New York (Playwright’s Week Festival). She is the author f radio plays and radio documentaries at international festivals in Berlin, Milan, Zagreb. Her radio documentary Who Does Not Die is Not a Man won the special prize of the jury at the Prix Italia in Milan.
Her texts have been published in magazines and anthologies, and her plays translated to English, German, French, Czech, Macedonian and Slovenian.

DAMIR KARAKAŠ was born in 1967. Lived in Zagreb, Split, Bordeaux, Paris. Writer, former journalist of the black chronicle in Večernji List and a cartoonist. Published a travelogue Bosnians are Good People (1999), novels Kombetari (2000) and How I Entered Europe (2004), story collection Eskimos (2007) After the book Kino Lika, director Dalibor Matanić made a film by the same name.

IVAN VIDIĆ, born in 1966 in Zagreb. Received a B.A. at the Academy of Performance Arts, Department of Dramaturgy. He writes theatre plays. Lives in Zagreb.
One of the rare Croatian dramatists whose texts have been regularly set on stage. He is often given epithets, “controversial”, “most interesting”, and his plays are performed on the stages from the Zagreb ITD and CNT to the London Gate Theatre. He is a recipient of all the important prizes including Dujšin (2004). He has been regularly publishing in the country and abroad, and his first novel Gangabanga (2007) has caused a considerable storm.
Plays (2002), Violator/She Speaks (2007). Plays: Harpa (1991), Passengers (1993), Fever (1995), Chicken Pox (1997), Grandma’s Heart (1999), Big Tilda (2000), Happy Endings (2002), Octopussy (2003), Support Group (2003), Big White Rabbit (2004), The One Spoken by Himself (2005), Life in the Shadow of Banana (2006).