Tena Štivičić is a Croatian born writer, whose plays Can't Escape Sundays, The Two of Us, Fragile!, Fireflies, Invisible, Europe, Three Winters, 64 Shots and Cabaret Kaspar have been performed across the world and translated and published in several languages. She recently won Short Circuit's 'First Feature' Development Fund for her film Acid.
Her play 3 Winters, which opened at the National Theatre to 5* reviews and international acclaim, won the prestigious Susan Blackburn-Smith prize in 2015 and has since been performed across the world, most recently opening to great reviews at the Burghtheater in Vienna. Tena's first English language play Fragile! played at the Arcola Theatre, and was later adapted for BBC Radio 4. It won numerous awards, including best European Play and Innovations Award at Heidelberg Stuckemarkt in Germany. Off the back of this, Tena was nominated as one of the 50 most promising young writers in Great Britain on an initiative launched by the Royal Court Theatre and the BBC.
Tena is also a columnist and screenwriter; she co-wrote on The Postcard Killings, a film by Danis Tanović.
Since relocating from London to Scotland she has worked with the National Theatre of Scotland and the BBC on the Scene for Survival project.
She is currently under commission by the Berliner Ensemble for a new play, has a feature film in development with Screen Scotland, another with Antitalent Productions in Croatia and a TV project with Adrenalin Productions in Serbia.