This year’s Sterijino pozorje award for original drama text goes to Mina Milošević.
The jury of the Sterijino pozorje competition for original domestic drama for the 2025/26 season unanimously awarded the main prize to Mina Milošević for her play Robinson Crusoe If She Had Been a Bisexual Woman with Six Fridays.
The jury, consisting of Mina Petrić (president), Mladen Vesković, and Borisav Matić, made their decision on 24 February 2026 after reviewing all submissions. The winning play was submitted under the code Ariel, a Mermaid or Laundry Detergent, and the author was identified as Mina Milošević after the official opening of the coded entries.
In addition to the awarded play, the jury also recommended two texts for public attention: The Speed of Light by Nikola Petrović and Croatian Mephisto by Mirjana Medojević. The award will be presented to Milošević during the celebration of Sterijino pozorje Day.
Mina Milošević (born 1998, Požarevac) is a playwright, dramaturg, screenwriter, and scholar of dramatic arts and media. She graduated in dramaturgy and completed a master’s degree in the theory of dramatic arts and media at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, where she is currently pursuing doctoral studies. She is the author of the plays Lysistrata: Sex and Strike and Robinson Crusoe If She Had Been a Bisexual Woman with Six Fridays, both of which explore feminist reinterpretations of classical heritage. Her master’s thesis, The Motif of Female Friendship in Contemporary Serbian Drama, received the Department of Dramaturgy Award and was published in the journal Scena.
As a playwright and dramaturg, Milošević has collaborated with numerous theatres. She authored texts for the productions Tesla (Duško Radović Little Theatre), A Fine Thread Is Woven by the Heart (National Theatre Pirot, co-authored with Olga Dimitrijević), and Ibsen’s Ghosts (Belgrade Drama Theatre). She also co-wrote the libretto for the opera Station Paraqdiso with Tanja Šljivar for Staatsoper Stuttgart, and worked as dramaturg on the productions Dr Ausländer (Made for Germany), Address to the Nation, Negotaiting Peace and Orlando.
For the play Tesla, Milošević received the Marija Kulundžić Award for an original drama text for children and youth. She is also one of the authors of the graphic novel Feminist Utopia and has published theatre criticism and essays in the journals Scena, Teatron, and SEEstage.
Mina Milošević lives in Belgrade and works as a research associate at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.
Divna Stojanov is a dramaturg and playwright. She writes mainly for children and young people.
