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MILAN GOVEDARICA

Theatre Producer , Project Manager

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e-mail: milan.govedarica@gmail.com

PAST PRODUCTIONS

Me, As A Penguin By Tom Wells , directed by Chris Hill , designed by Barney George , April-June 2010.

Stitch is hitting the gay scene of Hull. Or at least dipping his toe in the water while staying with heavily pregnant sister Liz and her shabby sofa loving partner Mark. But why won’t Stitch let anyone into the bathroom even though Liz is dying for a pee? And who is the man in the giant penguin costume?
A comedy of knitting, penguins and Battenberg cake.

‘Wells exercises impressive command over a surreal situation… given the choice I personally would pick up the penguin.’ The Guardian. photos...

BEEP... by Aisha Khan and Mark Catley for Development Lab at Theatre in the Mill (Bradofrd Uni), November 3-7, 2009. photos...

Company Along The Mile by Tom Bidwell, UK tour 2009 (West Yorkshire Playhouse, South Hill Park, Arcola Theatre and The Lowry). photos...

Stella and George are no ordinary couple. For starters they're not a couple, they just meet in a hotel room in Blackpool every Wednesday and Stella is a transvestite who likes her sandwiches cut into triangles. A quiet afternoon in bed looking over the obituaries is interrupted by a mysterious phone call and a volley of stones at the window. Is this a Stella wind up or is someone out to get them?

With Blackpool lapping at the windowpane and a dead body in the ensuite, Stella and George are panicked into action. Will this be the end of their story or the beginning of a beautiful friendship?

The tour was funded by Arts Council of England G4A.

Let's Go Outside, an international project including workshops and showcases in Athens and Leeds of a new play Here I Am by Nikolai Khalezin, founder of Belarus Free Theatre. The project included artists from Belarus, Greece, Hungary, Serbia and UK.

Funded by British Council Creative Collaborations Programme.

Born in Bethlehem by Al Harah Theatre (Palestine), UK Tour Spring 2008 (SPCI Leeds Uni, Contact Manchester, York Theatre Royal, Tara Arts, Marjon, The Plough and Theatre Clwyd).

Funded by Arts Council of England.

Born in Bethlehem is a new piece of work devised by Al-Harah company, themselves based in Beit Jala, close to Bethlehem. The play takes the form of a guided tour through Bethlehem, with the audience as the sight-seers. The tour includes a performance of the Nativity story. But the characters of Mary and Joseph soon encounter all the problems of present day Palestinians: the dividing wall and security checks. photos...

Belarus Free Theatre in Leeds (25-28 Feb 2008)
Being Harold Pinter
Generation Jeans

Two performances each of Being Harold Pinter and Generation Jeans performed at a secret location in Leeds as a re-construction of conditions under which Belarus Free Theatre is forced to work in Minsk – uncertainty, constant risk of persecution and arrest. Modern and politically engaged dramaturgy combined with some of the classiest acting and directing Eastern Europe has to offer.

Being Harold Pinter –A collage of scenes from some of Pinter’s greatest works interwoven into his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, highlighting the connections and contradictions between his artistic and human rights principles. photos...

Generation Jeans ­– A personal and deeply moving monologue on resistance to oppression, written and performed by Nikolai Khalezin, supported by DJ Laurel’s live act. photos...

Supported by Arts Council of England, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Workshop Theatre (University of Leeds).

Heart of a Dog by Jodie Marshall (adapted from original novella by Mikhail Bulgakov)
Theatre in the Mill (Bradford Uni), May 2007

This was a small scale, pilot project, produced for Theatre in the Mill as a part of research on re-working classics. The show was performed in May 2007 at Bradford University campus (Richmond building) at a sci-fi looking annex, very suitable for the setting of Jodie Marshall’s play.

MILAN GOVEDARICA - BIOGRAPHY

Milan Govedarica is a freelance producer based in Leeds, with particular interest in new and international work.

His projects include:

UK tours - Me As A Penguin by Tom Wells, directed by Chris Hill, of Company Along The Mile by Tom Bidwell, directed by Justin Audibert and Born in Bethlehem by Al Harah Theatre (Palestine), BEEP... by Aisha Khan and Mark Catley for Development Lab at Theatre in the Mill, Leeds performances of award winning company Belarus Free Theatre, Heart of a Dog adapted by Jodie Marshall and directed by Alan Lane for Theatre in the Mill, Bradford and the Janus Project for West Yorkshire Playhouse.

In 2006 he was funded by Arts Council England – Yorkshire to undertake placements at Unlimited Theatre, Theatre in the Mill and National Student Drama Festival.

Originally from Belgrade, Milan spent seven years in the Drama Department of the National Theatre of Belgrade, where he was also Project Manager of NovA DramA, then the only writer development programme in Serbia.