Medina Dizdarevic is an emerging playwright based in Boorloo (Perth).
Born to refugee parents, her work examines displacement, the Muslim experience, and intergenerational trauma. Medina graduated from Curtin University in 2015 with a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing, and endeavours to use theatrical storytelling as a means of community healing, joy, and connection.
The Strangers is Medina’s newest work, and is currently in development with Performing Lines WA and Black Swan State Theatre Company through the Department of Local Government, Sports, and Cultural Industries’ Playwright Partnership Program.
The play celebrates Muslim stories and explores the Muslim identity through magical realism. The development of this work fills a dire need to bring Muslim voices to the theatre and arts sector at large, something which Dizdarevic specifically wanted to address with this work.
We sat down with Medina to gain more insight into The Strangers, the rationale behind the work, how being part of the 2021 Kolyang Artist Lab influenced her as an up and coming Playwright, and how her own experiences as a young Muslim woman have shaped the creation of the work.
Medina Dizdarevic is an emerging Plawywright based in Boorloo (Perth).