About
Mihailo is a multi-award-winning actor. He has been involved in professional theatre since 1997, and has been a full-time member of the National Theatre in Belgrade since 2001. He has performed with the National Theatre and as a guest actor in many other theatres across Europe, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, including Dramaten Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden; Maly Theatre and Taganka Theatre in Moscow, and Alexandrinsky Theatre Sankt Petersburg, Russia. Mihailo has been involved in more than 50 classical and contemporary theatre productions. His performance work comprises of plays by classical authors including Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Ibsen, Gogol, Molière, Chekhov, and contemporary authors such as Sarah Kane, Marina Carr, Nina Valse, Jean-Luc Lagarce, Tony Kushner, Sergei Kokovkin and many others.
Mihailo has taught in Serbia and in New Zealand, in both conservatoire and university settings. Through his process of teaching Mihailo introduced students to a variety of different approaches to the work of the actor. Mihailo has taught all years from first to fourth year, as a teaching fellow and a convenor, covering subjects such as acting techniques, devising theatre, play production, theatre workshop and actor training. Working alongside students, and introducing and examining the works of classical and contemporary authors, and approaches to theatre creation by different theatre practitioners and theatre companies, Mihailo gives the students and professional actors the practical skills to become diverse theatre makers.
Actor, Actor-trainer,
University Lecturer
& theatre director
Mihailo has received multiple international awards for his academic, pedagogical and practical performance work. He has performed in many theatres across Europe, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, including Dramaten Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden; Maly Theatre and Taganka Theatre in Moscow, and Alexandrinsky Theatre Sankt Petersburg, Russia.
Mihailo has been a core member of Equal Voices Arts in Aotearoa New Zealand, where he has co-devised and developed two large scale touring productions that have been designed to be accessible for both Deaf and hearing audiences (without formal interpretation, so both languages have equal status on stage). This work has enabled him to tour across Aotearoa New Zealand with two fully funded productions. One of these productions, ‘Salonica’, was commissioned to go on European Tour in 2017. Mihailo has also led theatre workshops in various contexts with Equal Voices Arts theatre company and Drama Studio Ogledala, around Europe and Aotearoa New Zealand. He works alongside diverse groups of people including adults, children, Deaf people, disabled people, and people
with learning disabilities, both professionals and amateurs. Working widely internationally, he is respectful of diverse cultural backgrounds and has been always very respectful of indigenous people.
Mihailo holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the Auckland University of Technology. His topic examines ‘the sacred’ in the work of the actor. Mihailo also has two Masters degrees. The one achieved in Aotearoa New Zealand, in Theatre Studies, examined the actor training method of Professor Predrag Bajčetić, his late professor in Serbia. The one completed in Serbia, in Acting, was practice based, examining the work of the contemporary actor in the Stanislavskian context. He also has an undergraduate degree in Acting.