Jelena Vuksanovic aka Andromeda
has worked as a writer, theatre practitioner and facilitator, director, and screenwriter. She has an MA in dramaturgy, and with a classical education, she was always drawn to knowledge and practice about contemporary and experimental theatre, therefore she participated in various trainings, workshops and other activities of non-formal education connected with contemporary and applied educational theatre techniques.
In 2015. Her debut movie «Panama” premiered during the Cannes film festival in the Special Screenings selection. Besides the Cannes Film Festival the movie was presented during Busan Film Festival, Sarajevo film festival, FEST. She has written several TV series, as a screenwriter and screenplay editor. One of the last projects was Miholjsko leto, produced for National Television of Serbia, (12 episodes).
In 2018. she had a premiere of her first contemporary opera “In… Se… -dawning-” in Bali, Indonesia, composed by Andys Skordis. In the same team they created their second opera, “Light Blue Day”, a contemporary, experimental opera, as part of the Berlin Opernpreis, which premiered and won the competition in Berlin in June 2022. The new production under the title “Zusammen Fallen”, premiered in Berlin in January 2024. The team grew into Ritual Opera Collective, which together did two projects in the last two years in Bali, Indonesia.
Since 2021. Jelena is one of the co-directors of the Gravida Collective, Wales, UK, organisation that focuses on development of creativity and wellbeing of female artists. In September 2023. the multimedia dance piece was premiered called Lullaby for a Mother, after the successful R&D project in 2018. Supported by Arts Council Wales.
