Jeton Neziraj is the former artistic director of the National Theater of Kosovo, and the founder and current director of Qendra Multimedia. He has written more than 25 plays that have been translated into many languages, including French, Italian, German, English, Spanish, Turkish, Kurdish, Polish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Bosnian, Croat, Slovenian, Macedonian, and Montenegrin. They have been presented at festivals and been performed by a great number of theaters and acting companies, such as Volkstheater (Vienna), L’Espace d’un instant (Paris), Teater de Vill (Stockholm), Festival Vie (Modena), Schlachthaus Theater (Bern), Gerald W. Lynch Theater (New York), Gare au Théâtre (Paris), Theater Heilbronn (Heilbronn), Bitef Theatre (Belgrade), Theater Nomad (London), Markus Zohner Theater Company (Lugano), Istanbul Municipal Theater, The National Theater of Wales (Cardiff), City Garage Theatre (Santa Monica), Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden (Wiesbaden), Yale Drama Coalition (New Haven), La MaMa ETC., (New York), The National Theater of Montenegro (Podgorica), and International Theatre Festival MESS (Sarajevo). In 2018 the office of the European Union in Kosovo conferred the European of the Year award, and in 2021 he was presented the International Theatremakers Award by Playwrights Realm in New York. His play, The Handke Project, was given the prestigious Journées de Lyon des Auteurs de Théâtre prize of 2024, and he won Kosovo’s National Drama award, “Katarina Josipi,” in both 2023 and 2024.