Tanja Miletić Oručević


Tanja Miletić Oručević is a Bosnian theatre director, academic lecturer, and translator.

Life and career

Tanja has been a Mostar Youth Theatre director since the summer of 2012. She was born in 1970 in Sarajevo and has graduated in 1999 from the drama directing department of the Ludwig Solski State Theatre School in Cracow. She has directed more than 30 professional theatre performances in theatres of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Poland, Italy and the Czech Republic. She was the Co-founder of the Independent Theatre Studio Laznia in Cracow. Some of her first projects were performances produced at Laznia: Jean Genet's “Maids” and Slobodan Šnajder's “Snaks's Skin”.
Tanja is one of the co-founders of the Acting Department at the Dzemal Bijedic University's Faculty of Humanities in Mostar. she has been lecturing and teaching drama in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2000. Starting in 2007, as a Ph.D student at JAMU in Brno, she has been working on international drama teaching programs.
She speaks English, Polish, and Czech and has translated drama works from these languages. She has also published an anthology of contemporary Polish drama called "Mortal kombajn" in Sarajevo.

Noted Works