Slobodan Unkovski

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Slobodan Unkovski (born 1948 in Skopje) is a theater director and professor of acting and directing. His active creative career began in 1971. He is the recipient of almost all major theater awards in the region, and his productions regularly receive invitations to various festivals around the world – from Venezuela to London to Belgrade. In addition to working with theaters in Skopje, he works intensively with the National Theatre of Slovenia in Ljubljana, the National Theatre in Wiesbaden, the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Boston, the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade, and many others. He has directed numerous performances in the countries of former Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, the USA, Germany, and Russia. Molière's "The Miser" is his first production in Bulgaria. His work is inextricably linked to the most significant dramatist from North Macedonia – Goran Stefanovski. Slobodan Unkovski has directed eleven of his plays and one dramatization. He also contributes to the popularization of Dejan Dukovski ("Barrel of Gunpowder" and other texts), Milena Marković, and other contemporary authors. Parallel to his directing practice, Slobodan Unkovski is actively engaged in teaching. Together with Meta Hočevar, Angelina Atlagić, Raša Dinić, and Goran Stefanovski, they lead the international master's program in theater directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje. He has also taught in the master's program at Brooklyn College in New York. He has led a series of seminars for actors and young directors at the Institute for Academic Theater Training at Harvard and has been an artist-in-residence at several theaters around the world.