Anja Novak

Anja Novak (1991), an actress and a poet, started working on projects with Glej theatre as a student of acting. In 2014 she graduated with the roles in 1981 and Brecht’s bride in the performance Now I fly, and completed her master’s studies with the authorial project I’d Have Children, a Garden and Fifteen Rabbits. She’s been a member of the Mladinsko since 2015. She has acted in several films (Antigone – How Dare We!, 2020; Riders, 2023 ...). In 2016 she collaborated on the performance Farce by the director Alberto Mestres in the Barcelona theatre festival El Grec. She is a versatile artist: singer (when necessary, e.g. in the experimental music project The Raising of the Voice, 2016, also a body and an instrument), deviser (project Ribcage, 2020), poet (Early Wounds, 2020), and in 2023, she won the Grum Prize for her play The Text of the Body. In 2024 the City of Ljubljana bestowed her the Župančič Award for her roles as Harper Pitt in Angels in America and Paula in Women as Lovers, for the two roles she also received the Borštnik award for acting. In 2019 she received the Borštnik award for young actress in the performance no title yet. In 2017, she received Borštnik Award for acting, together with her acting colleagues in the performance The Man Who Watched the World. In 2015 she won the academy Prešeren Award for the I’d Have Children, a Garden and Fifteen Rabbits, in 2014 academy Prešeren Award to the entire class for the production of 1981 and a Vesna for her role of Jasna in a short film The Springtime Sleep.