Rhine-Westphalia awarded her the prize in theatre literature. New York and Los Angeles In 2008, Čelan re-established Theater TAS in New York City with the performance and installation Yard Sale: New Footfalls... as its first production, presented by the arts organization chashama. She is a member of PEN American Center. The Theater TAS production of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's play "Blood on the Cat's Neck" directed by Čelan was presented in March 2014 by the Goethe-Institut LA as a multimedia theater and film performance. On June 28, 2014, the Max Kade Institute at the University of Southern California hosted the multimedia reading of Čelan's play "Woyzeck von Sarajevo" under her direction. Works Čelan's plays have been performed on the German radio and in theatres. In addition to her own plays, such as The Last Story, Woyzeck from Sarajevo (both translated into English) and Struwwelpit & Co., she has directed twenty plays by classical authors, including Anton Chekhov, William Shakespeare, Edward Albee, Franz Kafka, Sophocles, and Samuel Beckett, in her theatre. Her works have been published in English, German and Serbo-Croatian. Čelan has translated texts written by Sylvia Plath, Leonid Andreyev and Isak Samokovlija among others. Drama The Death of Omer & Merima The Royal Marine The King’s Murderers Heimatbuch (Homeland Book) Commedia Goldoniana The Last Story (translated into English) Chekhov Woyzeck from Sarajevo (translated into English) Felix Cabaret International The Struwwelpit & Co. (in collaboration with Maria Fuß) Picollo Fratello Francesco Other Woyzeck from Sarajevo (radio play) Clean Hands (book) Awards Best Young Actress in SR Bosnia and Herzegovina Yugoslavian Award for Avant-garde Arts Best Director Award at the Avant-garde Theatre Festival in SR Montenegro Dramatist Award of the Bund der Theatergemeinden (Alliance of the German Theatre Community) for the best German-language play for her play Heimatbuch (Homeland Book), 1995 Kristal Vilenice, International Literature Award for Poetry, for her book Me and You – Book of Love Poetry, 1996 Artist Award of the Cultural Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in the field of Theatre Literature, 1997 References External links Theater TAS Official Website Rhizome Artist Profile Theater TAS on Vimeo 1956 births Living people People from Odžaci Bosnia and Herzegovina actresses Women dramatists and playwrights Bosnia and Herzegovina people of Serbian descent Bosnia and Herzegovina emigrants to Germany German people of Serbian descent German emigrants to the United States American people of Serbian descent American people of Bosnia