Molina Udovički Fotez is a Serbian playwright, dramaturge and screenwriter. She graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade in 1985 and joined the Drama Program Editorial Department of Television Novi Sad that same year. Over the following years, she worked as a dramaturge, editor of domestic drama and series, editor of foreign drama and series, and Editor-in-Chief of the Drama Program Editorial Department. During this period, she was credited on around forty TV dramas, television films and series produced by Television Novi Sad’s Drama Program, including Balkan Express 2, The Black Bomber, Tito and Me.
In 1989, as a representative of the Yugoslav Radio Television (JRT), she served on the international jury for television films and dramas at the Prix Futura festival in Berlin, where the Television Belgrade film The Harms Case received the festival’s Grand Prix. In 1990, she was the youngest participant at the Drama Experts Conference in Antwerp. In 1982, following the production of the television drama Zemlja, based on her screenplay and directed by Nikola Lorencin, the same play was staged at the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad, directed by Radoslav Dorić. She is the author of several radio dramas, plays for children, and several television adaptations of works by other authors, including Kosta Trifković’s Ljubavno pismo (The Love Letter) and Borislav Pekić’s How to Entertain Mr Martin.
She briefly served as an editor in the Fiction Program of Television Belgrade and, from 2002, worked as a dramaturge at the National Theatre in Belgrade. She collaborated on productions with a number of prominent theatre directors, including Jiří Menzel, Vida Ognjenović, Jagoš Marković, Ivana Vujić, Nikola Zavišić and Milan Nešković. From 2003 to 2011, alongside her work as a dramaturge, she also served as Assistant Director of the Drama Department of the National Theatre in Belgrade.
In 2011, she became Director of the Drama Department of the National Theatre. In May 2012, for the first time in the history of Serbian theatre, the Drama Department of the National Theatre presented a production at the famous Globe Theatre in London as part of the Cultural Olympiad: Shakespeare’s history play Henry VI, directed by Nikita Milivojević and performed in Serbian. After being removed from her position as Director of Drama in 2013 for political reasons, she remained at the theatre, working as a dramaturge. In 2019, she was once again appointed Director of Drama Department. Following the pandemic and a change in the management, the Drama Department entered one of the most artistically significant periods in its history.
Until December 2025, when Molina Udovički Fotez retired, the Drama Department produced numerous premieres on both stages and won two consecutive Sterija Awards for Best Production for the first time in the history of the National Theatre. In addition to these, numerous awards were received for Best Production at festivals in Serbia and the region, as well as for individual artistic achievements.
Alongside four decades of work on artistic projects in television and theatre, Molina Udovički Fotez has also been intermittently involved in teaching for approximately two decades at arts programs in Belgrade and Bijeljina, where she held the position of Associate Professor.
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