Branko Gavella is theatrologist from Zagreb, director, translator and theater educator. In Zagreb, as well as in many European theater centers, set up 279 plays and operas, in particular directing Držić Krlež, Shakespeare, Pirandello, and Wagner. The founder of the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb (1950.) And one of the founders of the Zagreb Drama Theatre (1953). Today Gavella Drama Theatre.