Olja Mladjenovic: Stories, Stages, and Visual Journeys

I am a Bosnian-born actor, writer and visual artist based in London.

My practice spans performance, writing and moving image. Since 2020 I have created a range of works that have been published, performed and exhibited around the UK and internationally.

I trained as an actor at the Actor’s Temple after working as an archaeological conservation researcher with projects including the Apolline Project, Balkan Cave Archaeology and the Çatalhöyük Research Project.

I am a 2024/25 Emerging Writer at The London Library, where my work appeared in the anthology New Voices Rise. My short story Fish received the Creative Futures Writers' Award and was published in How It Started. Following the international exhibition Voice Notes, I co-edited the anthology Hold to Record: Voice Notes from Refugees with poet Sarah Jackson and Palewell Press.

I am a 2025 mentee of the Projekt Europa - Projekt Empower programme, as an emerging theatre maker, developing a new stage play under the mentorship of Marcelo Dos Santos.

Through my visual art and moving image work I like to explore my connection to Bosnia, what it feels like to live in the margins of cultures, and push the boundary of what identity can be.

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