Sanja Simic

Director | Dramaturg
[stage | screen]

Santa Simić is an award-winning theatre director, dramaturg, and creative producer, currently based in Meanjin on the unceded lands of the Turrbal and Jagera people. She has over a decade of experience as a theatre director and creative producer in Australia. Recent directorial credits include IRL (La Boite, 2023), Naked & Screaming (La Boite, 2021), Caesar (La Boite, 2021), and Lysa & The Freeborn Dames (La Boite, 2018). With the independent company Bodysnatchers, which she co-founded with playwright Mark Rogers in 2010, she has directed Rogers’ Plastic (2017), Soothsayers (2012), and Blood Pressure (Sydney, 2012), as well as multiple seasons of Kirby Medway’s Encounter in Sydney, Adelaide, and Melbourne.

As La Boite’s Creative Producer (2017-21), she led the programming team in delivering the company’s suite of Artist Development Programs. She also programmed and delivered the company’s annual HWY festival of new work for five consecutive years. She was Director in Residence at La Boite Theatre Company from 2021-22 and Creative Producer from 2017-2021. She has also held positions at the Australia Council for the Arts (International Projects) and Australia’s leading organisation for interdisciplinary arts, Performance Space.

Most recently, Sanja held the position of Development Executive at Unless Pictures (2021-23). She was also the Curator of the 2023 Australian Performing Arts Forum.