The artistic director of MTF "Vojdan Chernodrinski", Ana Stojanoska, will be a member of the jury of the official program at the upcoming 63rd edition of MESS (International Festival of Small and Experimental Stages in Sarajevo). One of the most prestigious festivals in the region, MESS, will be held from September 30 to October 8 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Stojanoska will judge the plays together with Marina Katnic-Bakarsic, a professor at the Faculty of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, and Jana Baskau, a producer from Germany.

MESS will be opened with the performance "Caligula" by the National Academic Drama Theater "Ivan Franko" from Ukraine. The top of European theater will be presented in 12 performances with works from England, Lithuania, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina. No theater company from Macedonia is participating in the festival.

The writer and professor Ana Stojanoska graduated from General and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philology "Blaze Koneski" in Skopje. She completed her post-graduate studies in theater studies at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, where she received her master's degree and doctorate. She worked as a researcher and coordinator at the Institute of Theatrology at FDU in Skopje. She specialized in the field of theater museology.

She is the author of numerous novels and dramatic works, hundreds of studies and reviews published in Macedonian and foreign magazines, as well as co-author of several theater monographs. He also writes theater reviews. Her poetry and prose have been published in several Macedonian and international anthologies.

(The text was published in "Cultural Press" number 198, in the printed edition of the newspaper "Sloboden Pechat" on 30.09-01.10.2023)