After studying dramaturgy at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Livija Pandur has worked as an author and dramaturge on various productions in numerous domestic and international projects. From 1991 to 1996, she was the dramaturge of the Slovene National Drama Theatre Maribor. She was dramaturge on numerous productions, including Scheherazade (Svetina), Faust (Goethe), Hamlet (Shakespeare), Carmen (Mérimée), La divina commedia (Dante), Russian Mission (Dostoevsky), and Babylon (Svetina), directed by Tomaž Pandur.
In 1997, she edited and published the monograph Pandur’s Theater of Dreams, and she writes essays and articles for numerous publications.
From 2001 to 2002, she was engaged at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg as a scriptwriter and dramaturge on Dante’s trilogy La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy – Hell, Purgatory, Paradise), and she was a dramaturge and assistant director on the following projects: Hell in the María Guerrero Theatre (Centro Dramático Nacional, Madrid, 2005), Barocco (Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, 2007), Hamlet (Teatro Espaňol, Madrid, 2009), Medea (Merida Festival, 2009), the ballet Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (Staatsoper Berlin, 2010), and The Twilight of the Gods (Teatro Espaňol, Madrid, 2011), directed by Tomaž Pandur.
Since 2002, Livija Pandur has been the director and producer of the international theatre organization Pandur.Theaters. Between 2002 and 2012, she worked as a dramaturge on the following plays co-produced by Pandur.Theaters: Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić, One Hundred Minutes based on F.M. Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, Tesla Electric Company, Caligula by Albert Camus, War and Peace by L.N. Tolstoy, Medea by Euripides and Michelangelo based on M. Krleža’s Michelangelo Buonarotti.
Between 2013 and 2015, she collaborated as a co-author of adaptations and dramaturge on productions directed by Tomaž Pandur: Richard III + II based on W. Shakespeare (Slovene National Drama Theatre Ljubljana), King Lear by W. Shakespeare (Peireous 260, Athens) and Faust by J.W. Goethe (Centro Dramático National Madrid, 2014; Slovene National Drama Theatre Ljubljana, 2015).
In 2016, she completed and directed the play Immaculata, Hommage à Tomaž Pandur (Slovene National Drama Theatre Maribor), which she adapted and prepared with Tomaž Pandur before his departure. In 2017, Livija Pandur renewed the ballet Symphony of Sorrowful Songs with choreographer Ronald Savković, also as Hommage á Tomaž Pandur (Slovene National Opera and Ballet Theatre Ljubljana, 2019).
In 2018, she directed the ballet Dictionary of the Khazars / Dream Hunters at the National Theatre in Belgrade.
She independently directed the plays: The Penelopiad based on the book by Margaret Atwood, produced by the Slovenian National Drama Theatre Ljubljana and the Ljubljana Festival, Alcestis based on Euripides, Hamlet – The Criminal Record of a Monarchy and The Queens based on Shakespeare at the Marin Držić Theatre in Dubrovnik; Echoes by Henry Naylor at Teatro Español in Madrid, and Five Kings: The Psychopathology of a Monarchy at the Celje City Theatre.
Livija Pandur’s numerous awards include the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Slovenian Association of Dramatic Artists in 2018.
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