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Tomaž Krajnc

Theatre Director Playwright Film Director Screenwriter

Tomaž is a theatre and film director based in London but working internationally. He has been involved with theatre for over 15 years and is currently a core member of Brief Palava theatre company.

After finishing a psychology undergraduate course at the University of Ljubljana, he applied to MA Classical and Contemporary Text at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he recently graduated in theatre directing. He has directed many publicly and critically acclaimed shows, including The Pillowman, which became the first play in the 54-year history of the Linhart Festival to receive all four awards (Best Play, Best Direction, two acting awards). An authorial version of Macbeth was also a big success. For it, he received a special award for original directorial ideas at the same festival.

More recently, he's been working as a director and assistant director in the UK. In May 2022 he led a successful London tour of a new writing piece Flightpath which was positively reviewed by various papers, including The Stage, London Theatre 1, British Theatre Guide...

He has directed four films, three short films and a longer documentary film. His first film, Broken Memories (Razbiti spomini), was selected for the competition part of the 15th Festival of Slovenian Film, and his last film, Control Panel (Nadzorna plošča), came third in the Muvit film marathon. His latest film-related project was a very successful web series Dualism (Dualizem), which broadcasted online at www.dualizem.com.

Credits

Flightpath, The Space Between Us, Choice, Suriname
(Brief Palava), Pretty Chickens (The Action To The Word), The Fall of Europe, Continuous Shot, Street Scene (assistant director) (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), McGonagall’s Chronicles (assistant director) (A Play, A Pie, A Pint); a scene from The Changeling (Globe Education / RCS); The Year of Schlager (F. B. Sedej); Vanya, Macbeth, The Pillowman, Nora Nora (Theatre Zarja Celje); The Affected Ladies, The Sixth Sense (First High School Celje)

Training

MA Classical & Contemporary Text, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
BA Psychology, University of Ljubljana

Location

London

Experience

5-10 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Film - short
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • TV - drama

What I do

  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Editing
  • Facilitating
  • Languages
  • Performance Art
  • Theatre making
  • Working with young people
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Writing

Additional Languages

Slovenian, Spanish

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