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TOMI JANEŽIĆ was born in 1972 in Ljubljana. Graduated in theater directing in 1998 and got an MA in 2001 at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, where he teaches acting and practical directing. Additional education in Slovenia and abroad, primarily in the area of acting techniques. As a theater director in the last ten years he has directed in most of the countries of the former Yugoslavia, and his performances tour across Europe. He has directed a repertoire of a wide range of authors, from the Greek tragedians, classical, to contemporary and the youngest authors: Euripides, Sophocles, Shakespeare. Buchner, Rostan, Genee, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Lj. Simović, M. Marković and others. He is established as one of the few researchers of play-acting today in Europe, “the Slavic Peter Brook”. Lately he has received a six-year education in the field to gain the title psychodrama psychotherapist. He has won several, mainly international, awards and recognitions.

77 A certified adventurist among directors, Tomi Janežič, decided to attempt a full staging of The Seagull, along with all of its known dichotomies (comedy-tragedy, old ageyouth, tradition-new) and ambiguities (life-art/ reality-illusion, substance-form). He sought an answer to "How?” with Chekov and accounts related to him and the students of Drama and their teachers. This is to say - at the very source. And an answer to “Why?” provided the performance itself. Igor Buric, Dnevnik

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