Vlatko Ilić is a theatre director and arts and media theoretician.
Ilić is active in the fields of contemporary theatre, its theory and artistic education. He was awarded the special prize for directing at the 52nd Sterijino Pozorje theatre festival (2007), his book An Introduction to New Theory of Theatre (Nolit/Altera, Belgrade) came out in 2011, and he is currently teaching at The Faculty of Arts, UDG (Podgorica, Montenegro), and New Academy of Arts (Belgrade).

Vlatko Ilić was born in 1981 in Belgrade.
In 2010 he completed his interdisciplinary PhD studies at the Department for Theory of Arts and Media, the University of Arts in Belgrade (thesis: The Strategies of Resistance of Live Performance in the Era of New Media; New Theory of Theatre / Theory of New Theatre in Serbia). In 2006 he graduated in theatre and radio directing from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts as the student of the year.
Since 1999 till 2001 he attended Lester B. Pearson UWC College of the Pacific, Victoria, Canada, for which he was awarded a scholarship from CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency). Since 2001 till 2009 he was awarded a scholarship from the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia.
Since 2009 till 2011 he was awarded a scholarship from the Ministry of Science and Technology of RS, and during that period he worked as an associate professor on the following courses: Aesthetics and Theory of Culture, at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts.
He is currently working on his research project: The Theory of Performative Acts: from Dramatic Theatre to Social Changes; Academy of Arts, Novi Sad / the Secretary of Science and Technological Development APV (2012-2014).

Theatre works (selected): Marx in Soho by H. Zinn, Yugoslav Drama Theatre/Scena Carina Theatre, Belgrade 2013; X Government Constitution of the Kingdom of Koreta by V. Klačar, Hebbel Theatre, Berlin, 2009; X Parliamentary Elections in the Kingdom of Koreta by V. Klačar, Dom Omladine Gallery, Belgrade, 2008/2009; III University Foundation in the Kingdom of Koreta by V. Klačar, Geschwister-Scholl-Haus, Leipzig, 2008; CODA, music theater, group of authors, Jugokoncert/Terazije Theatre, 2008; Parliamentary History of Koreta by V. Klačar, BELEF, 2007; IX Government Constitution of the Kingdom of Koreta by V. Klačar, Belgrade City Assembly, 2007; The Very End of the World by Jean-Luc Lagarce, Little Theatre “Duško Radović”, 2006; Crave by Sarah Kane, National Theatre/Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade, 2004; The Dracula Project, group of authors, Theatre des Augenblicks/Kaiserliches Hofmobiliendepot, Vienna; Les Subsistance, Lyon, 2002/2003.

Publications (selected): “Performance, performing arts and the question of performing theatre arts” in Matica Srpska Journal of Stage Arts and Music no. 48, Novi Sad 2013; „Contemporary theatre and the legacy of the 20th century“ in Anthology of Essays by the Faculty of Dramatic Arts no. 22, Belgrade 2012; „Arts and new social order“ in Law and Society no. 3/4, Belgrade 2011; „Everybody repeats the same rhetorical question: Do we still need theatre?“ in Anthology of Essays by the Faculty of Dramatic Arts no. 20, Belgrade 2011; „Visual arts in the time of new media“ in Culture no. 131, Belgrade 2010; “How do we write Arts?“ in Philosophical Researches no. 30, Zagreb 2010, “The culture of spectacle and the society of the oppressed” in Culture no. 126, Belgrade 2010; „How does the discipline remember?“ in Strategies of New Theatre no. 7, Novi Sad 2010; “Theatre specters and the post-disciplinary platform” in Anthology of Essays by the Faculty of Dramatic Arts no. 15, Belgrade 2010; “Performing/producing (national) archive of images”, Povelja, Kraljevo 2009; “Tactics of performing (disobedient) subjects in/of culture” in Anthology of Essays by the Faculty of Dramatic Arts no. 13-14, 2009; “Towards establishing a new regime of thinking art practice” in V. Klačar, X Parliamentary Elections in the Kingdom of Koreta, 2008; “The (Un)Peaceful Kingdom of Koreta” in V. Klačar, IX Government Constitution of the Kingdom of Koreta, 2007.