Kaća Čelan (born August 5, 1956 in Ratkovo, SR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia) is a writer, director, theatre and acting expert, professor and actress.
[1] Kaća Čelan (Serbian Cyrillic: Каћа Челан) was born and grew up in Ratkovo (Odžaci), SR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia;[2][3] an area in the multicultural and multifaceted region of Vojvodina, dominated by five cultures and languages: Serbian, Hungarian, German, Ukrainian (Rusyn) and Czech, which influenced and shaped her early childhood.
[4] Prior to the siege of Sarajevo, Čelan moved to Ljubljana, Slovenia, where she worked as a writer and director for a year.
[6] In 2008, Čelan re-established Theater TAS in New York City with the performance and installation Yard Sale: New Footfalls... as its first production, presented by the arts organization chashama.
On June 28, 2014, the Max Kade Institute at the University of Southern California hosted the multimedia reading of Čelan's play "Woyzeck von Sarajevo" under her direction.