I am an internationally published and staged writer, theater & performance maker, educator, and art critic from Prizren, Kosova, based in Nashville, Tennessee. My practice combines academic and artistic research with individual and collective histories and archives, aiming to call attention to the nuances of congealed knowledge by amplifying the narratives of the peoples in the margins, with a particular focus on transformative and climate justice. I work across various mediums such as language, sound, video, movement and produce site-specific participatory performance art that investigates the relationship and mutual impact between humans and spaces.
In 2025, I published my first book named Six Youth Plays, supported by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of Kosova, and Qendra Multimedia, a book of plays developed during devised youth empowerment workshops in Kosova over a decade.
I have collaborated with various artists, collectives and institutions based in Kosova, Europe and the U.S. My work has been staged and stage-read across Kosova (National Theater, Oda Theater, Lumbardhi Foundation, Dodona Theater, Kino Rinia), Helsinki/ Finland (LAPSODY, Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Myymรคlรค 2, City Theater Studio Pasila, oksasenkatu11/รรคnen Lumo, Vantaa Museum), Lucerne/Switzerland (Lucerner Theater), Berlin/Germany (Berliner Festspiele/Theatertreffen), Waldstock Festival and London/UK (Unicorn Theater), and the U.S. (Kindling Arts Festival, Defy Film Festival, CoopGallery, Belcourt Theater), while my plays, op-eds, reviews and critique have been published in Kosovaโs Koha Ditore, Kosovo 2.0., Prishtina Insight, in Athens, Greece (ะะะะะะะกะะ ะะะะะะะะ ะะะะกะะะ- The Balkan Literary Herald), Helsinki, Finland (NO NIIN Magazine), New York (The Theater Times) and Nashville based Music City Review. I currently serve as a board of directorsโ member for Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed Inc. In January 2024, together with writer and filmmaker Chelsea Hall, we started Art Friends, a collective dedicated to making space for sharing artistic processes, inspiration, and co-creation. Iโm also a member of the Nashville based transgressive art collective TRANCE//FURNACE.
I am currently pursuing my professional graduate studies in Community Development and Action (CDA) at Vanderbilt Universityโs Peabody College, Department of Human and Organizational Development in Nashville, Tennessee and work as a teaching assistant for undergraduate students in Applied Human Development with a focus on Youth Development.
