Željko Maksimović is an actor, performer and translator from Belgrade, Serbia. He graduated at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade and has been a member of the Eho animato collective since its founding in 2011. Besides performing in numerous Belgrade’s public theatres (Dr. Auslander (Made for Germany), White Kidneys, A Point Before Permeation, The Regime of Love, Photograph 51, The Deceased and others), he has also worked independently both in Belgrade (Borderless Lines – awarded Best Actor at the 2008 FIST festival in Belgrade, Fragments of Disquiet, Borderline Beauty, Best Intentions) and Prague, Czech Republic, with the award-winning directorial duo SKUTR (The Tempest, Walls and Handbags). He worked on several TV shows in Serbia (The Clan, The Family, Step by Step and others). He has also translated essays on theatre theory, and contemporary plays to and from english (Filip Grujić, Dino Pešut, Tanja Šljivar). As a performer, he closely collaborates with artist Ivana Ivković in her works (Monument: The School of Athens, Monument: No One is Lost, After You, In Him We Trust) and Selma Selman, working on texts for her performances (Presidential Speech Until We are Worth More than Gold, Motherboards). He was the author of the concept and text for digital performance Mirror Glaze; (Eho animato, LaMaMa, CultureHub), as well as the creator of the performance Leading Seduction (Za Vođenje) in the Contemporary Gallery of Subotica.

He collaborated with CultureHub New York on Downtown Variety Serbia edition where Eho Animato curated the show and produced two live translocational performances. With the collective, he organized and participated in two CultureHub Convenings in Belgrade (2021 & 2023) and was a facilitator of the workshop Creative Strategies in Digital Performance at the National Theater in Prague in scope of the Crossroads festival.