MA in Comparative Literature, Russian Language and Literature
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb & Saint Petersburg State University (SPBGU)

BA in Acting and Media Academy of Applied Arts, Rijeka

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Artistic Director of the organization

PR Manager

Author, performer, and anything else that is needed

Sendi has been working as a clown with the organization Red Noses Clowndoctors since 2020. As part of the European project ClowNexus (2021–2023), she has been developing new approaches in clowning for elderly people with dementia. Member of the Emergency Smile Red Noses International team, bringing clowning to refugee camps and crisis areas worldwide (since 2024).

She worked as a program selector for the Student International Film Festival (STIFF) (2017–2022) and the ZOOM Festival of Performing Arts in Rijeka (2021). She occasionally writes performance art reviews for Kulturpunkt.hr. She was selected among 11 critics worldwide for the Springback Academy dance criticism program (2020/2021) and attended the IETM Campus in 2018 on a scholarship.

As an independent actress and performer, she has appeared in various productions in Croatia and Slovenia. As a co-author and performer, she worked on the project Sex Education II, directed by Tjaša Črnigoj, and produced by Mladinsko theatre, Maska Association, and City of Women in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2024, the project received multiple awards at Maribor Theatre Festival and Week of Slovenian Drama, Slovenian Association of Theatre Critics and Researchers Award for Best Performance of 2023, while the lecture-performance Sex Education II: Fight won the Special "Jovan Ćirilov" Award and the Audience Award at Bitef Festival and was performed at HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin.

Special interests: devised theatre, clowning, burlesque, lecture-performance, festival curation.