Zorica Jevremović is a Serbian theatre and video director, playwright, choreographer, intermedia theorist, literary historian and feminist. Her work also includes that of a dramaturge in alternative and informal theatrical and film groups. She is director of the Belgrade Centre for Media "Ranko Munitić" and the editor of a regional journal for media and culture Mediantrop. Her husband was a prominent Yugoslav cultural worker and media theorist Ranko Munitić.
Biography
She was born by post-war circumstances in Ražanj, but she was raised in Belgrade from the earliest childhood. She met Ranko Munitić at the amateur film festival "Mala Pula", on 24 June 1968. The two of them married in Belgrade on 1 May 1971, where Zorica added the surname Munitić to hers Jevremović, then they went to Zagreb. In November of the same year, they return to Belgrade, where they lived together until the end of March 2009. She obtained her dramaturgy degree in 1975 at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. As an advocate of a common Yugoslav cultural milieu she has undertaken research into the cultural history and theological common law in multinational and/or multiconfessional regions of Croatia, Slovenia and Kosovo within former Yugoslavia: Dubrovnik, Perast, Dečani, Tacen, Povlja, Poljica, Zjum. She was active as a dramaturge in the following key alternative and informal theatre and film groups in former Yugoslavia: KPGT, Art-film, Nova osećajnost, Preduzeće za pozorišne poslove. She edited the following alternative research collections focused on literary history and published in “Književnost” journal: Sava Mrkalj, St. Sava and Hilandar, Vatroslav Jagić. She also founded the following alternative theatres that operated as 'neighborhood theatres' in ghettoized communities, in places with no previous history of theatre performances: Zorica Jevremović has worked with the following marginal groups: Romani children, nuns, psychotics, invalids, blind persons, women who have suffered violence, parentless children, lesbians and women refugees. At the beginning of the 1990s wars in former Yugoslavia, she was an active member of two anti-war groups: “Civilni pokret otpora” and “Beogradski krug”, in the framework of which she undertook a number of social-cultural projects. Zorica has also published books on multimedia theory and applied theatre, as well as several books of plays.
Pocket Theatre M Promotion /Promocija Džepnog pozorišta M/
Bosnia 92 – Human Traces /Bosna 92 – ljudski tragovi/
Left Over Film Reels /Ostaci filmske trake/
Literature
Jevremović, Zorica. , priredio Aleksandar Milosavljević, Scena, god. 38, br. 2, pp. 49–54
/ razgovarala Branka Krilović, Scena, god. 38, br. 2, pp. 37–48.
Bekčić, Gordana. „Osuđene na pozorišno nepostojanje: Zorica Jevremović: Četiri predratne drame, Prometej, Novi Sad 2001.“, Scena, god. 39, br. 1/2, pp. 112–113.
Milosavljević, Aleksandar „Nesporazumi sa dušom: beleška o dramama Zorice Jevremović“, in: Četiri predratne drame / Zorica Jevremović, 2006, pp. 5–8.
Dragićević-Šešić, Milena. , originally published as foreword in: Balada o devojačkom odelu / Zorica Jevremović, 2006, pp. 110–126
Dragićević-Šešić, Milena. , originally published in: Kultura, Knj. 124, Beograd, pp. 209–220.
