Selma Spahić was born in 1986. She has graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. She has done over 30 theatre directions and performances, for which she is often also the co-author of the texts, some of which are: Spring Awakening (ASU/MESS, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Hypermnesia (Heartefact/Bitef, Serbia), Scratching or How My Grandmother Killed Herself (BNT Zenica/Heartefact, Bosnia and Herzegovina/Serbia), Women Who Clean (MNT Podgorica, Montenegro), The Secret of Raspberry Jam (SARTR/MESS, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Liliom (SNT Drama Ljubljana, Slovenia), The Master and Margarita (HNK Zajc, Rijeka, Croatia), That Which Is Missing (ZKM Theatre, Croatia), 4AM (Kostolanyi Dezso Theatre, Serbia), The Clickworkers (Schauspiel Stuttgart, Germany), Seven Terrors (BNT Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Purple (Chambre Theatre 55, Bosnia and Herzegovina). In her performances, she focuses on intimate history and political intimacies, she explores physicality and feminist deconstruction of patriarchal narratives.
Her performances have often been awarded and participated at renowned international festivals like Bitef, Neue Theater Stücke aus Europa in Germany, Kontakt in Poland, or Culturescapes in Switzerland. From 2012-2017, she was the artistic director of the International Theatre Festival MESS, and its curator from 2009-2018. She is currently employed at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo.
