Nenad Prokić


Nenad Prokić is Serbian playwright, theatre director and Founder of the Liberal Democratic Party
and professor of 20th Century Drama at University of Art in Belgrade from 1995, he was the playwright-in-residence at Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade and at Slovenian National Theatre in Maribor. He has served as the Director of Belgrade International Theatre Festival and Bitef theatre in two consecutive mandates.

Biography

Prokić is one of the founders of Belgrade Circle and of Forum of Writers. He is the author of the novel Alpha Foxtrot and of numerous theatre plays. His play Metastable Grail is in the Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Drama. Other plays include: House of Bergmann, Fear for the Border, Homo Volans, Fathers and Forefathers, In the Search of Marcel Proust, Dantes Divinus, The Russian Mission, The Last Days of Mankind, Le Petit et le Grand Theatre du Marquis de Sade, Edelheim, Finger Trigger Bullet Gun, Thankless Croatian Son...
The last premieres of his plays were held in Halifax, Canada; London and Birmingham, UK.
Prokić directed the following pieces for the theater: Follie a Deux by Heiner Mueller, The Servants by Jean Genet, Helver's Night by Ingmar Villqist, Let's Talk About Life and Death by Krzysztof Byzio, The Unapproachable and Mercy Payable in Advance by Zanussi/Zebrowsky, Faraway by Tamara Bosak. Nenad Prokić wrote Absent Discourse Voices thesis dedicated to the work of Karl Kraus.
Prokić was MP in the Parliament of Serbia in two consecutive mandates and he is the Founder and the first President of the Friendship group with Sovereign Military Order of Malta in the Serbian Parliament. The Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, fra Matthew Festing decorated Prokic with the knightly PRO MERITO MELITENSI Cross of Grand Officer of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, on June 15, 2012.
From October 2014 Nenad Prokić is an Advisor for Humanitarian Issues at the Embassy of Sovereign Military Order of Malta to the Republic of Serbia.

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