Jure Ivanušič (born 24 March 1973 in Maribor)[1] is a Slovene theatre and film actor, director, playwright, concert pianist, composer, chansonnier and translator.

He studied drama at the Ljubljana Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television and piano at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz.

The play "Stoned Cabaret",[2] which he wrote with the physicist Peter Žiger, directed and contributed the musical part for it, was, according to professional critics, considered the best performance of the Maribor Slovene National Theatre season 1997/98.

He also wrote the 'recession opera' "Eustachio and Catherine"[7] as well as the incidental music for the play "Black Masks" for the opening of the Summer Festival of the Littoral in Koper in 2000.

Authorial songs from the music and theatre project "I Was Close to You" were later published on the album "Jure Ivanušič & Gusarji: Ob desetih zvečer" (ZKP, RTV 1999).