Lucija Ćirović

Lucija Ćirović, born on 19 May 1972 in Ljubljana, is a Slovenian puppeteer, actress, stand-up comedian and ventriloquist. She is the first Slovenian ventriloquist and has performed at public and private events for children and adults, both with puppets and with stand-up comedy. She attended the Dr. Franceta Prešerna primary school in Ribnica, and after secondary school for design and photography in Ljubljana she graduated in 2004 from the Pedagoška fakulteta in Preschool Education. In 2016 she earned a master’s degree at the Akademija za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo, receiving a student Prešeren award for her thesis S trebuhom za kruhom (“With My Belly for Bread”).

She has appeared in numerous theatre productions and in film and television series, including Tv dober dan (“TV Good Day”) (1999), for which she was nominated in 2001 for the Viktor award for the role of the cleaner Fate. In 2011 she co-hosted the Viktorji 2010 awards with Boštjan Gorenc-Pižama. As a stand-up comedian she appeared in StendAp predstavlja (“Stand-up Presents”) in 2017 and StendAp predstavlja 2 (“Stand-up Presents 2”) in 2020 on POP TV. She has performed stand-up comedy across Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia since 2003. In 2016 she created her master’s performance S trebuhom za kruhom (“With My Belly for Bread”), in which, as the first person in Slovenia, she performs ventriloquism. In 2019 she attended the Vent Haven Convention in Cincinnati, USA, and as the country’s only ventriloquist she was mentioned in an article in Forbes magazine. At the 2019 Vent Haven Convention, she performed an English-language ventriloquist act with her puppet Coco Ch.Adel.

Together with Boštjan Štorman she founded the children’s theatre Gledališče iz desnega žepka in 2003. She is the author of the first ventriloquist show for children in Slovenia, titled Zmešnjava iz kovčka (“A Mess from the Suitcase”). Between 2002 and 2015 she was a mentor at the Dramska šola Barice Blenkuš, and she became one of the first coaches of child actors in Slovenia for television series. Since 2024 she has been a mentor at the Mini šola nastopanja za invalide.