Jasna Jasna Žmak

Jasna Jasna Žmak is a writer, dramaturg and researcher from Zagreb, Croatia, working in the fields of performance, dance, literature and film. She is a docent professor at the Department of Dramaturgy at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, teaching BA and MA courses on performance dramaturgy. She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of Zagreb. She has published several books, including "Lecture as Performance, Performance as Lecture – on the Production of Knowledge in the Arts" (Leykam International, 2019) and "Dirty Words – Essays on Female Sexuality" (Fraktura, 2020). She has organized and/or mentored several programs and/or workshops in the fields of writing, dramaturgy, feminism and/or psychodrama. She is currently president of SPID – Croatian Screenwriters and Playwrights Guild.