Ivica Buljan was born 1965 in Croatia. His productions took part in numerous international festivals in France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Venezuela, Austria, Greece, Macedonia, Belgium, Switzerland, Russia, Great Britain, Bulgaria, France, Iran, Poland, Slovakia, Cuba, Albania...
As a guest professor he has teaching at Academie experimentalle des theatres in Paris, Brussels and Moscow. He has also been teaching in La Mamma school of famous director Ellen Stewart in New York.
He is professor in National Theatre school in Saint Etienne.
In the period between 1998 and 2002 he was the director of the Croatian National Drama Theatre in Split. He is the co-founder of the Mini teater in Ljubljana and the founder and artistic director of World theatre festival in Zagreb.
For his work he received a great number of prestigeous awards:
the Dubravko Djušin Award (1997), the Petar Brečić Award (1999), the Peristil Award (2001, for Oedipus), the Borštnik Diploma and a Special Award from the Jury (2004), Grand Prix of Tempus Art festival (2004), and the Medal of the City of Havana (2005)... Golden Lion for the best performances (Hamlet 2006, The princesse's Drame 2007), the Borštnik Award for the best slovenian performance (Oedipus 2007)...