Almir Im¿irevi¿ was born on March the 10th 1971 in Biha¿, enrolled in the Academy of Performing Arts Sarajevo, and in 1998 he graduated from the Department of Dramaturgy. He is the author of the following plays: If This Were a Play¿, Shame, the Balkan Devil, Circus Inferno, Based on a True Story, Mousefuckers, If This Were a Movie¿, Fistik ., The Great, Muhammad Ali, the One and Only, plus two micro dramas, Playback Sevdalinka, and Ten Differences (the Only Thing That's Real). His works have been produced in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, France, Turkey, Poland, Kosovo, Italy, and the Czech Republic. Included as a playwright in the Twentieth Century Anthology of Bosnian and Herzegovinian Drama, he has served as a dramaturg as well on numerous plays for B&H theaters, and as a critic for Sarajevo-based magazines. He has published two books of short stories: Page 212 and The Most Beautiful of All Worlds, and novel Golden Shrapnel. A part-time professor in the Department of Dramaturgy at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, Im¿irevi¿ is a project manager of the Dramad¿iluk playwright's festival.