Senad Halilbašić, born in 1988 in Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina), is a theatre scholar and screenwriter. His doctoral research in theatre studies at the University of Vienna forms the basis of this book. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Vienna and at the Cluster of Excellence Temporal Communities at Freie Universität Berlin. Among his publications is the co-edited volume Theatre in the Context of the Yugoslav Wars (2018), the first comparative study of theatre in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s. Alongside his academic work, he writes for film and television and teaches screenwriting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.