Alja Predan, a dramaturg, translator, editor and theatre researcher has been, among other things, the artistic director of the SNT Nova Gorica, a dramaturg at the Ljubljana City Theatre and Celje City Theatre, the head of the theatre and contemporary dance programme in Cankarjev dom, and the director of the Maribor Theatre Festival (2009–2019). She was the editor of the Knjižnica MGL (Ljubljana City Theatre Library, which published 30 books on the theory and history of drama and theatre during her tenure) and the founder and editor of the Contemporary European Drama series.

As a dramaturg, she has collaborated on more than fifty productions in all Slovenian theatres, as well as abroad. She has translated around sixty plays of contemporary British, American, Serbian, Croatian and Polish drama. She has been a member or president of numerous juries at theatre festivals in Slovenia and internationally, including the festival New Drama in Bratislava, Sterijino pozorje in Novi sad, Bitef in Belgrade, Marulić Days in Split, the Divine Comedy festival in Krakow and BE festival in Birmingham. She was also the selector of the Week of Slovenian Drama in Kranj, a curator for the Slovenian Focus at the 7th Contemporary Drama Festival in Budapest, and the Slovenian focus at the 6th New Drama Festival in Bratislava.

She has received several awards for her work, among them the Grün-Filipič Award, the lifetime achievement award from the Slovenian Association of Dramatic Artists, the Glazer Award and the Vladimir Kralj Lifetime Achievement Award.

Rok Andres graduated from the department of dramaturgy at the UL AGRFT and then worked as an assistant and a young researcher at the University of Nova Gorica, where he also earned his PhD. His dramaturgical work includes working on productions in Slovenian theatre institutions and co-creating different festivals, including his work in expert juries. His bibliography is over eighty units and includes academic research and editorial work. His main research focus is drama and the reception of foreign drama in the Slovenian theatre system. In the years 2020 and 2021, he was the selector for the Week of Slovenian Drama, and the first editor-in-chief for the web-portal Kritika (SLOGI). He is the artistic director of the Šentjakob Theatre in Ljubljana, and is currently employed as a dramaturg at the SNT Drama Ljubljana.

Jakob Ribič is a young researcher at the UL AGRFT. Between 2015 and 2019, he was a member of the editing board of the academy’s journal Adept and, between 2018 and 2022, he co-authored – together with Varja Hrvatin and Maša Radi Buh – the weekly radio programme Teritorij teatra (for Radio Študent). Since 2022, he has been the co-editor of the web portal Neodvisni. He publishes articles in professional and academic journals (Problemi, The Brecht Yearbook, Amfiteater, Maska …), theatre programmes and collections of papers (Drama, tekst, pisava 2, Govor in prostor). He has been a jury member or a selector at different festivals and competitions (Odprto polje kulture, Transgeneracije, Rdeča nit, International One-Minute Play Contest). He received the UL AGRFT Student Prešeren Award for his bachelor’s thesis (2018) and for his master’s thesis (2020).

Miriam Kičiňová has been the artistic director of the Slovak National Theatre Drama in Bratislava since January 2021 but worked there as a dramaturg and a language consultant since 2011. She studied theatre dramaturgy and theory at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, where she earned her PhD in 2019. As a part of the Erasmus exchange programme, she studied at the UL AGRFT in 2008. She has worked as a critic for several newspapers and collaborated with the majority of the Slovak theatres, where she created over 40 productions as a dramaturg. She is a part-time lecturer at the academy in Bratislava, where she teaches the analysis of drama texts.

Mirna Rustemović holds a degree in dramaturgy from the Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb in Croatia. She is an occasional playwright and has worked as a dramaturg in Zagreb Youth Theatre ZKM, HNK Zagreb, Sisak City Theatre, Trešnja City Theatre, HNK Varaždin, Zagreb Dance Centre, Theatre &td., Mini teater and the Dubrovnik Summer Festival. She is the resident dramaturg at the Croatian National Theatre HNK Zagreb.

Nika Bezeljak graduated from the UL AGRFT in theatre and radio directing. As a theatre artist, she has worked on several art projects and also works as an educator and producer. As a director, she regularly collaborates with both national puppet theatres and independent producers. She has created over twenty productions and won several awards for them. For years, she was a member of the Intimate Stage GT22 collective and part of the artistic management of Moment in Maribor. She co-created the international festival Prestopi/Crossings and the platform for the internationalisation of contemporary performing practices Trigger. She is a member of several expert bodies and commissions (Ministry of Culture, Municipality of Celje, Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and Puppetry Artists Institution of Slovenia (ULU)).

Igor Samobor established himself as an actor at the amateur theatre in Ptuj when he was still in high school. In 1976, he enrolled at the UL AGRFT, where he studied stage acting and the artistic word. He finished his studies in 1981 with the role of Pastor Manders in Ibsen's Ghosts which won him the Student Prešeren Award. He immediately became a member of the ensemble of the SNT Drama Ljubljana, where, over the years, he created a series of title, leading and, above all, very complex roles He is also an excellent interpreter of the artistic word and thus regularly appears in literary programmes at Radio Slovenia. In 1992, he won a Prešeren Fund Award for the roles of Raskolnikov (Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment), the Prince of Homburg (Kleist’s The Prince of Homburg), Policeman (Ö. von Horváth’s Faith, Hope and Charity), Peer Gynt (H. Ibsen’s Peer Gynt) and George (E. Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf). For Raskolnikov, George and Peer Gynt, he won the Stane Sever Award (1991), while the eponymous role in Peer Gynt won him his first award at the Maribor Theatre Festival (1992). Between 2001 and 2011, he won six more Borštnik Awards for Best Actor at the Maribor Theatre Festival. In 2012, he received the highest accolade for acting in theatre, the Borštnik Ring Award. From 2013 to 2022, he was the managing and artistic director of the SNT Drama Ljubljana.