Nenad Prokić

Nenad Prokić (Serbian: Ненад Прокић) is Serbian playwright, theatre director and Founder of the Liberal Democratic Party (Liberalno demokratska partija), Serbia in 2005. A professor of 20th Century Drama at University of Art in Belgrade (Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu) from 1995. He was the playwright-in-residence at Yugoslav Drama Theatre (Jugoslovensko dramsko pozorište, JDP Beograd) in Belgrade (1985-1995) and at Slovenian National Theatre (Slovensko narodno gledališče, SNG Maribor) in Maribor (1991-1995). He served as the Director of Belgrade International Theatre Festival (Bitef) and Bitef theatre (Bitef teatar) in two consecutive mandates (1997-2005).

Prokić is one of the founders of Belgrade Circle (Beogradski krug) and of Forum of Writers (Forum pisaca). He is the author of the novel Alpha Foxtrot and of numerous theatre plays. His play Metastable Grail (Metastabilni Graal) is in the Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Drama. Other plays include: House of Bergmann, Fear for the Border, Homo Volans, Fathers and Forefathers (Dramatisation of Slobodan Selenic), In the Search of Marcel Proust, Dantes Divinus, The Russian Mission, The Last Days of Mankind (Adaptation of Karl Kraus), Le Petit et le Grand Theatre du Marquis de Sade, Edelheim, Finger Trigger Bullet Gun…

The last premieres of his plays were held in Halifax (James Dunn Theatre), Canada; London (LIFT Festival) and Birmingham (BE Festival), UK.

Nenad Prokic directed the following pieces for the theater: Follie a Deux by Heiner Mueller (Yugoslav Drama Theater), The Servants by Jean Genet (Bitef Theater), Helver's Night by Ingmar Villqist (Bitef Theater), Let's Talk About Life and Death by Krzysztof Byzio (Bitef Theater), The Unapproachable and Mercy Payable in Advance by Zanussi/Zebrowsky (Bitef Theater), Faraway by Tamara Bosak (Bitef Theater)...

Prokic was MP[1][2] in the Parliament of Serbia in two consecutive mandates and he is the Founder and the first President of the Friendship group with Sovereign Military Order od Malta (SMOM) in the Serbian Parliament. His Most Eminent Highness the Prince and Grand Master of Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, fra Matthew Festing decorated H.E. Nenad Prokic with the knightly PRO MERITO MELITENSI Cross of Grand Officer of the Order Sovereign of Malta, on June 15, 2012.

On Nov. 3rd, 2012 Prokic resigned from the Presidency and the membership in LDP because of lack of democratic procedures in the party.

From October 2014 Nenad Prokic is an Advisor for Humanitarian Issues at the Embassy of Sovereign Military Order of Malta to the Republic of Serbia.


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  1. ↑ "Still no consensus on Srebrenica resolution". B92. 8 February 2010. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
  2. ↑ "Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia: daily survey of 19 May 2009". Beta News Service via Girodivite. 19 May 2009. Retrieved 30 May 2011.

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