Graduated in dramaturgy at the Academy of Dramatic Arts and received a master’s degree at the Department of Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb.

She worked as a theatre critic and culture editor at „Vjesniku“ and wrote for culture magazines in the country and abroad. She was a Fulbright Scholar at City University New York and New York University, and a British Government Scholar in Project „21st Century Theatre“. She has been the founder and artistic director of the World Theatre Festival since 2003. From 2004 to 2014, she was the director of the Zagreb Youth Theatre, and from 2014 to 2022, the director of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. She was appointed general manager and artistic director of the Croatian National Theatre Ivana pl. Zajca Rijeka for the period from 2025 to 2028.

For three terms, she was president of the European Theatre Convention and a member of the board of directors of the European Theatre Convention and Opera Europe. She launched numerous Croatian projects such as Philosophical Theater, Open Square Day, Open City Day, HNK in your neighborhood, HNK Summer Evening Festival in Zagreb, They are coming…. as well as European projects – Spring Tour ETC, European Theater Lab, European Theater Academy in Avignon (of which she is the leader for nine seasons), Prospero, „Stage“. From 2022 to 2024, she was a columnist for the political and social weekly Express. In 2023, she launched the Open House Zagreb Festival and became its creative director, for which she was declared „Manager of the Year in the category of the best managed innovative project” of the Croatian Association of Managers and Entrepreneurs.

She received the Order of Danica Hrvatska with the image of Marko Marulić for special merits in culture and its promotion in the Republic of Croatia and around the world. She received the City of Zagreb Award for exceptional international representation of Croatian theatre. She was also awarded the Order of the Stars of Italy, which the Republic of Italy awards for her outstanding contribution to the promotion of friendship and cooperation, for her persistent commitment to the development and expansion of theatre cultural exchange between the two countries.