Ivana Sajko is a writer and director. She took a degree at the Academy of Dramatic Arts and a master’s at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. She is on the editorial boards of the performing arts journal Frakcija and the literary periodical Tema. Previously, she was editor and presenter of the TV programme on contemporary theatre V-efekt and has for numbers of years lectured at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. She is a co-founder of the BADco theatre group, in which since 2005 she has worked as dramaturge and director. She has won several prizes for literature and theatre; her books have been translated into several languages, and her dramatic texts played on stages and radios around the world. She has published a collection of dramas Smaknuta lica [Executed Faces] (2004), a dramatic trilogy Žena-bomba [Woman-Bomb] (2004), the novel Rio bar (2006), a book of theory Prema ludilu (i revoluciji) [Towards Madness (and revolution)] (2006) and the novel Povijest moje obitelji od 1941 to 1991, i nakon [History of my family from 1941 to 1991 and after] (2009). Working with composer David Simson she issued a CD Mass for election-day silence (2004). She directed her most recent show Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose in 2010 in the ZKM Theatre, when she worked for the first time with Alen and Nenad Sinkauz.

Alen Sinkauz and Nenad Sinkauz are professional musicians and composers. They took master’s degrees in musicology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Padua. In 1994 together they founded the band Dusty Miller, and in 2002 founded their current band East Rodeo, in which they play with an international group of jazz and rock musicians, blending art rock, noise, experimental jazz and improvisation. They also create music for short and documentary films, and together launched the experimental music festival Audioart in Pula. They started theatrical work in 2001, since when they have been working as musicians, performers and composers with the experimental theatre TAM Teatromusica of Padua and director Michele Sambino. In 2007 they directed their own theatre and music performance Brod / Ship.