BELGRADE ENGLISH LANGUAGE THEATRE

An independent youth theatre based at the Children's Cultural Centre, Takovska 8, in Belgrade, Serbia, BELT offers fun, creative, and inclusive English-language drama classes for ages 7–18.

Founded in 2007, BELT is an independent English language youth theatre.
Together with our members, we create playful and collaborative environments, within which, young people can improve their English language, creative and collaborative skills.
Each member will perform in at least one production per school year and may even get the opportunity to take part in one of our foreign excursions!
Whilst many of our past members have gone on to work in the performing arts, our aim is create an inclusive, supportive, learning environment where every child matters.

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Open to non-native and native English speakers aged 7 to 18 years
Each group is organized according to age group (max 12 per group)
Each group meets twice weekly (Monday and Wednesday or Tuesday and Thursday evenings)
Please contact us for availability, days and times of classes

Accredited as EU and OECD trainers, BELT offers trainings for teachers, social workers, students and businesses.

Mattering Through Drama: a series of one-day workshops focusing on how drama methods can be used to increase children’s sense of value. (ongoing)
Drama and Civic Education: a two-day accredited teacher training programme developed with OECD focusing on how drama methods can be used to deliver the Civic Education curriculum in schools. (ongoing)
YES AND…Improve your business: bespoke trainings for team-building and improved communication for businesses. (available)

We have close collaborations with similar English language youth theatres throughout Europe and we arrange excursions for at least two of our groups per year.
Previous excursions have taken us to:
Bath, London, (United Kingdom), Prague (Czech x 3), Rijeka (Croatia x 4), Vienna ( Austria), San Querico (Italy), Budapest (Hungary), Ljubljana (Slovenia x 4), Valetta (Malta x 2), Antwerp ( Belgium x2), Hamburg ( Germany), Moscow (Russia).

TEACHERS

Paul Leonard Murray

Founder director, Pedagogue PhD, M.A. B.A. (Hons)

Paul has followed a varied career within education and the performing arts. A regular actor in tv series and films he is a former university professor in the UK and published playwright. He retains a number of consultancy positions in education institutions and delivers regular trainings for teachers and arts professionals.

Julija Stojanović

General Manager, Pedagogue B.A.

Julija has been working with BELT since 2013. As well as managing and administrating BELT Julija leads multiple groups as a teacher. In her time at BELT, she has created and/or directed over 50 theatre performances for children and managed and lead excursions. She is the co-facilitator of an OECD-funded state accredited teacher training program in Serbia, designed to help teachers use drama methods in the classroom, and for two years worked on the EU Young Theatre – “Creative Europe” project for researching Impro theatre and public as Impro Trainer/Drama pedagogue.

Jana Dekanski

Pedagogue

Jana received her MA in Acting from the Faculty of Contemporary Arts in Belgrade. While in high school she was a member Belgrade English Language Theatre, where she participated in many productions and excursions. She's been a drama teacher in BELT since 2023 where she enjoys working with groups and sharing her knowledge and creativity. She is also a professional actress and theatre producer with roles on TV and in the Theatre.

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Coming Soon

Summer School

Latest

For the third time BELT will be participating in the FEATS festival in May of this year. Following appearences at the fringe FEATS festival in Antwerp we will taking our version of Bouncers by John Godber to Hamberg.

https://feats.eu/

Summer School

We are happy to announce two summer school weeks in 2025!
Each week is stand-alone and will run from 10 AM to 4 PM daily.
At the end of each week, participants will perform an original play for parents and friends.

🗓 Week 1: July 14–18
🗓 Week 2: August 11–15

💰 Cost for one week: 150 euros
👥 Places are limited to 12 children, so contact us now to reserve your spot!

BELGRADE ENGLISH LANGUAGE THEATRE

An independent youth theatre based at the Children's Cultural Centre, Takovska 8, in Belgrade, Serbia, BELT offers fun, creative, and inclusive English-language drama classes for ages 7–18.