Željko Maksimović (b. 1985) is an actor, translator and TV presenter from Belgrade, Serbia. He has been a member of the Eho Animato organization since its establishment in 2011, and a member of the Association of Drama Artists of Serbia since 2016. In 2018, alongside his colleague Ana Konstantinović, he was the lead coordinator of the International Federation for Theatre Research World Congress in Belgrade, an event that gathered over 900 international scholars. Besides performing in numerous Belgrade’s institutionalized theatres, he has also worked independently both in Belgrade (Borderless Lines – awarded Best Actor at the 2008 FIST festival in Belgradea, Fragments of Disquiet, Borderline Beauty, Best Intentions) and Prague, Czech Republic, with the award-winning directorial duo SKUTR (The Tempest, Walls and Handbags). He has appeared in several TV shows in Serbia, and has been a host of Cultural Centre, a central Radio-television of Serbia’s weekly cultural program. He has also translated essays on theatre theory by Janelle Reineilt and Milija Gluhović, and plays by Filip Grujić, Dino Pešut and Tanja Šljivar, the latter in collaboration with a New York based artist Cory Tamler, published in the US by Asymptote Journal, The Mercurian and The Offing. Željko is currently working on developing projects focusing on the position of the performing arts sector in the post-Covid times.
His work with Eho animato include: