Mia Nikoloska is a screenwriter and playwright from Skopje. She’s a Film and Theatre Dramaturgy graduate from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje. She was part of the writers' room for season 6 of the longest running sitcom in North Macedonia. Her play, The Hunger Artist, was selected for the Asia Playwrights Festival 2021 in South Korea. Mia is an alumna of the Eureka Series training programme Fall 2023 edition by the Series Mania Institute and Torino Film Lab NEXT TV Series 2024. Merkin has been shortlisted for the Studio21 script competition in association with Content London 2024 and was nominated for the Best Pre-development Project Award in the Scripted Series category at NEM Zagreb 2024.