Jure Ivanušič
Jure Ivanušič (born 24 March 1973 in Maribor) is a Slovene theatre and film actor, director, playwright, concert pianist, composer, chansonnier and translator. He studied drama at the Ljubljana Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television and piano at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz. On many Slovene theatre stages, he has created several character roles (Pentheus in Euripides' Bacchae, Jerry in Albee's Zoo Story, Lorenzo di Spadaro in Andreyev's Black Masks, Mozart in Amadeus and Brindsley Miller in Shaffer's Black Comedy, Blue Morphan in Shepard's Unseen Hand, Axel in Strindberg's Playing with Fire etc.) for which he received the highest awards and recognitions both at home and abroad. The play "Stoned Cabaret", which he wrote with the physicist Peter Žiger, directed and contributed the musical part for it, was, according to professional critics, considered the best performance of the Maribor Slovene National Theatre season 1997/98. He directed the hit "Tomorrow I'll start" by writer Desa Muck. With her, he also wrote the comedy thriller "Christmas Eve" that was premiered at the Koper Theatre in 2008. In 2001, he directed the first Slovene staging of "The Vagina Monologues" by Eve Ensler. He also maintains a successful collaboration with