Bojan Štih (18 February 1923 – 14 October 1986), was a Slovene literary critic, stage director, and essayist. He was one of the most influential figures in modern Slovene theatre after 1945. Štih was born in Ljubljana, where he attended Bežigrad High School. During World War II, he collaborated with the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People. In 1942 he was arrested by the Italian Fascist authorities and sent to the Gonars concentration camp. In late August 1942 he escaped from the camp along with a group of Slovene Communist activists, among whom was also the Partisan leader and Boris Kraigher, who later who became prime minister of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia. Štih actively participated in the Slovene Partisan resistance in the Julian March.