A discussion with Nenad Čolić, PLAVO Theatre director and theatre pedagogue
October 1, 2025, 20:30
Nenad Čolić
Theatre director, pedagogue and actor, was born in 1961 in Belgrade, Serbia. Before foundation of Plavo Theatre, he was a dancer in music theatre, one of the founders of Signum Theatre, one of the first independent theatre companies in ex-Yugoslavia where he was an actor and a dancer, and afterwards he was an actor in Dah Theatre in Belgrade. In that period, he achieved experience in practical work with Odin Teatret’s actor Torgeir Wethal. In 1994 he started working as a director, he worked in Milan with Italian director Massimo Giannetti, founder of theatre Specchi e memorie, and with him he started a long-lasting collaboration.
In 1995 he founded Plavo Theatre – theatre laboratory, where he has been director, pedagogue and actor. He so far directed almost 30 performances in Plavo Theatre, which were performed in numerous theatrical festivals nationally and internationally, of which there were 6 international co-productions. Some of them are: Oscar Wilde and the Inconstant Prince in 2001, Dialectics of Soul – Study of Freedom in 2004, I Sing Like a Bird in 2006, Daydream – A Story from Terezin, which presented Serbia at Wroclaw-European capital of culture 2016 on Theatre Olympics 2016, Wroclaw, I Psychi tis Antigonis in 2023, The Passage in 2024 (an international co-production created within Creative Europe project The Paradox of Justice), Deaf Dorian Gray – inclusive potential of utopia in 2025.
He has conducted various theatre workshops and seminars nationally and internationally like From Myself towards Theatre, Contemporary Theatre – The Space of Open Mind, Contemporary Theatre – Mind and Technique, Two Open Weeks of PLAVO Theatre, as well as projects of continuous theatrical education such PLAVO Theatre Group 2, Play Against Violence, School of Contemporary Theatre, Contemporary Theatre Studio. Since 2017he has been actively engaged in inclusive theatre projects as a pedagogue, theatre director and artistic supervisor of the inclusive work particularly with deaf and hard of hearing youth and artists, within European programs such Erasmus+ and Creative Europe and he directed performances such Triptych – three personal stories (2018) and Triptych 2 – my Hamlet (2022).