Nationality Croatian Known for Theatre, film, writing | Name Boris Bakal | |
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Born 1959 Zagreb, SR Croatia,
SFR Yugoslavia Awards ArtsLink Fellow, Bitef Festival Special jury awards, Pula Theatre Festival awards | ||
Boris Bakal (born September 18, 1959 in Zagreb) is a theatre/film director and actor.
Biography
Boris Bakal was born in Zagreb, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now the Republic of Croatia)
He was a visiting scholar/lecturer and researcher at New York University (1998), Stony Brook University (1999), Studio Art Centres International (Florence, 2000), and Columbia University (New York, 2003), Leiden University (2008), Kent University (Canterbury, 2013), DAMU (Prague, 2014) and others.
He was an artistic director and curator of the multidisciplinary urban festival "Hunting Season" (Stagione di Caccia) from 1999 to 2001, and co-director and co-curator of Migrative Art Festival (within the Flying University Project), Louvain la Nuove (Belgium), 1993–1995 and Tunel Festival, Zagreb, 1995.
He is also a co-founder and co-author of the projects of Bacači Sjenki/Shadow Casters (since 2001).
