Sandra Selimović

Sandra Selimović is an actress, director, rapper, activist. Born in Zajecar (Serbia) in 1981, she has been on stage since 1994. She is currently performing "Die Ärztin" by Robert Icke at Burgtheater Vienna and "Roma Army", directed by Yael Ronen, at Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. As a freelance artist she has worked at Volkstheater Vienna, Schauspiel Essen, Staatstheater Kassel and in the independent scene as an actress and director in Austria, Germany and Romania.  At the age of 12 she filmed her first ORF television series "Operation Dunarea". Together with Tina Leisch, she directed her first documentary film "Gangster Girls" in the women's prison Schwarzau and made it to the Viennale and the Munich Documentary Film Festival. In 2010, together with her sister Simonida Selimović, she founded the first feminist Roma theatre association Romano Svato and at the same time began making music as the rap duo Mindj Panther. In their productions they deal with racism, identity, feminism and exclusion, breaking through the stereotypical image and clichés of the Roma as an ethnic group. As a self-confident and queer Roma, she is on the one hand a campaigner for equal rights for women in the Roma community, and on the other, she is committed against discrimination. In 2013, she won the audience award of the "Junge Burg" as the youngest director at Vienna Akademietheater.

Works at brut

• Justitia! Identity Cases (2022, with Gin Müller, Mariama Diallo and Flor Edwarda Gurrola)