Vitomira Loncar
Ph.D. Vitomira Loncar, Assistant Professor
Vitomira Loncar is a well-know actress, working in theatre, film
and television. She is also a founder of the Theatre "Mala Scena",
together with her husband Ivica Simic. She has been the Director of
the theatre since 1997. She received numerous awards for her work,
including the Croatian Actors' Association
Award (1986 and 1999), Zlatna
Palicica (Golden Wand) at the International Festival
in Ljubljana in 2000, as well as Best Film
Actress for the lead role "Stefica Cvek" at the Film
Festival in Nis in 1984. For her outstanding contribution to
culture, she received the Order Danica in
1995 by the Croatian Prime Minister, and in the same year she also
received the Croatian National Award for
her contribution to the war effort leading to Croatian
independence.
She graduated at the Academy of Performing Arts in 1981, the
class of Professor Josko Juvancic, and since her graduation she
developed a rich repertoire as an actress on stage, radio drama,
film and TV drama. She was also leading a major TV show for the
young from 1989 till 1997.
As the Director of Mala Scena, she has produced over 70 plays
and has been the executive producer of the Milk Tooth
Festival since its establishment in 1998.
She is the executive producer Epicentre, Theatre Centre for
Children and Young People in Central and South-eastern Europe. In
this context, she produced the first "Playwrights Forum" in Opatija
2004.
She is also a Senior Research Fellow at Royal Holloway University
of London where she participated in EU funded research projects
using drama techniques to produce scenarios of use of Advanced
Information Technologies.
She was a member of the production team of the ITI Unesco NPG group and she
was working for Congress in Manilla in 2006.
2009 Vita participates in the SWAN Innovation project
"Videoconferencing Usability for the Virtual Classroom" as
a Senior Research Advisor.
Her favourite role is Annie in The Real Thing by Tom
Stoppard.
She is the mother of Buga Marija Simic and wife of Ivica Simic.
CONTACT
Theatre Mala scena
Medvescak 2
HR-10000 Zagreb
Croatia
e-mail vita@mala-scena.hr
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