Ivica Simic

Actor, Director

Founder and the Artistic Director of Theatre Mala Scena

Secretary General of ASSITEJ - International Association of Theatres For Children and Young People

Graduated Acting at the Academy of Drama Arts, University of Zagreb 1983.

In 1989, together with Vitomira Lončar, he founded Theatre Mala Scena (www.mala-scena.hr) where is the Artistic Director since then. In Theatre Mala Scena he also directs and performs for audiences all ages.

His first professional direction was The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard 1989. Till now he directed more then 50 performances in TYA and in theatre for adults in Theatre Mala Scena, but also as a guest director in Croatia and abroad.

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Ivica Šimić works as a director of international projects such as Borges project, Manila 2006 and iFdentity Project, Madrid 2008 for International Theatre Institute. Currently, he is directing The Patchwork Family Project, the project of cooperation between European and Asian Theatres.

He has been participating in the work of ASSITEJ as a member of the Executive Committee since 1999. He was elected Secretary General in 2008 at the Congress in Adelaide, Australia, and his second mandate is running from the Congress in Copenhagen and Malmoe in May 2011.

He is the founder of Theatre Epicentre , Theatre Centre in Central and South-eastern Europe.

Ivica Simic

Theatre Mala Scena

Medveščak 2

10000 Zagreb

Croatia

tel. +385 1 98 202 662

ivica@mala-scena.hr

isimic@inet.hr

ASSITEJ

Secretary General

www.assitej-international.org