Nenad “Neno” Pervan was born and raised in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1990, he earned his BFA in Acting from the Academy of Arts, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. In 1993, following the violent breakup of his country, he moved to the United States. In 1997, he earned an MFA in Performance from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. That same year, he moved to Los Angeles, California. Following that, together with his dear friend and colleague Zoran Radanovich, Neno started an ad-hoc theatre company, Il Dolce Theatre, which has successfully produced several plays by Southeastern European playwrights in various theatres in Los Angeles.

As an actor, Neno was honored to collaborate with Oscar winning director Mr. William Friedkin on three different occasions. He also worked with great theatre directors and teachers Liviu Ciulei and Kathalin Laban, and Nobel Prize winning poet and playwright, professor Wole Soyinka. Neno appeared in several motion pictures nationally and internationally. He was honored to share the big screen with many great actors, including Academy Award winners Benicio Del Toro and Tommy Lee Jones. He also appeared on American and European stages in numerous theatre productions, ranging from classics like Shakespeare, Benn, Chekhov, Wedekind, Gogol, Dickens, Mrozek, and Ionesco to contemporaries like Frish, Carver, Ludwig, Stenham, and Mastrosimone.

Neno teaches acting, acting pedagogy, and stage movement at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, as Clinical Assistant Professor of Acting Pedagogy. In the past he also taught acting for the camera and beginning acting at Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, California, and Commedia Del Arte technique at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, West Hollywood. Neno is also an Associate Artist with an international theatre organization Global Arts Corps, http://globalartscorps.org/home/ under the leadership of Michael Lessac, which brings together performing artists from
 opposite sides of countries’ cultural, religious and racial divides to create original theatre productions that encourage dialogue and create a space for people to hear the stories of those they have learned to fear, disdain, and hate. The stage becomes a laboratory for conflict preservation and reconciliation.

Neno  also directs, acts, and writes for theatre, film, TV, and new media. His theatrical directing credits include titles like Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor, Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet (Love is a Fire),  Genet’s The Balcony, Miller’s The Crucible, Ionesco’s Macbett, Dietz’s Dracula, Agatha Christie’s The Hollow, Mastrosimone’s Extremities, Mrozek’s The Emigrants, Ibsen’s Ghosts, Zadravec’s Honey Brown Eyes, Boythcev’s Colonel and the Birds, Pintauro’s Raft of the Medusa, Wedekind’s Spring Awakening, Stenham’s That Face, Benn’s Emperor of the Moon, and many others, as well as devised theatre pieces dedicated to social justice like Stages of AIDS and What We Feel About Gun Violence. 

In 2015, Neno was awarded The Part Time Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award at the Loyola Marymount University – Los Angeles.

For his work as fight choreographer on Philip Ridley’s Tender Napalm, Neno won a 2013 LA Weekly Theatre Award. Neno wrote several pieces for theatre, film, and TV, some of which were successfully produced in Europe and in the United States. Neno Pervan resides in Santa Monica, California with his wife of 30+ years, Milena, and children Andrej and Mia. 

Zoran Radanovich was born and raised in the Croatian capital of Zagreb. He started acting at an early age at The Zagreb’s Youth Theatre. After moving to London in the early 90’s, he attended The Central School of Speech and Drama, as well as The City of Westminster College.

After relocating to Los Angeles, he continued to pursue his acting career and discovered his passion for creative writing.

With his great friend and colleague Neno Pervan, he co-founded Il Dolce Theatre Company in 2001. His credits with the company include: the role of XX opposite Tim Choate in the critically praised production of Slawomir Mrozek’s two hander The Emigrants at the Coronet Theater, the titular character in Eugene Ionesco’s Macbett, and the part of Dracula in Steven Deitz’s Dracula featured at The Long Beach Playhouse.

Among other theater credits, he would like to give special mention to playing Luigi in Dario Fo’s We Won’t Pay, Kruegel in Nikolai Gogol’s The Gamblers, and originating the part of Von Bach in Owen Hammer’s Von Bach with The Next Arena Theatre Company.

In his film and television work he’s worked with some of the most talented and respected directors in the industry (William Friedkin, Kathryn Bigelow, Michael Bay, J.J. Abrams, Joss Whedon, Stephen Frears, Noah Buschel) and shared screen time with some of the most talented and sought after acting talents of today (Benicio Del Toro, Ray Liotta, Michael Shannon, Sir Ben Kingsley, Uma Thurman, and Stana Katic amongst others).

Milena Pervan was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and raised in Belgrade, Serbia. After graduating from high school, and completing first two years of college in Belgrade, following the 1993 break-up of her country, she came back to her native United States with her husband Neno. She completed her BS at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and then moved on to Los Angeles and UCLA, where she earned her PhD. in Biomedical Physics. She is presently working as a professional in the Biotech industry. She serves as a Producer and/or Executive Producer on all Il Dolce Theatre Company’s projects.