Magda Fertacz - about the author

Magda Fertacz (1975)
is one of the major representatives of a generation of Polish writers who after 1989 have renewed the face of Polish drama. In her work Fertacz analyses interpersonal relations both in their purely human aspect, as well as in a wider, social context. Her texts turned out to be just as vivid and pertinent in countries which have not experienced the regime change of 1989 (when Soviet Communism was collapsing across Eastern Europe). She made her debut with the play Dust, distinguished in the competition Daring Radom in the J. Kochanowski Theatre in Radom in 2005, and staged at the National Theatre in Warsaw. Another piece Absinthe (2005) was presented in the Drama Lab Theatre in Warsaw, directed by Aldona Figura.  Absinthe won the second place at the Festival of Polish Contemporary Art R@port in Gdynia and the award of distinction in the Ministry of Culture competition for the performance of contemporary art.
A drama,  Trash Story won the Gdynia Drama Award of Gdynia, one of the most important drama prizes in Poland. Trash Story was also finalist at the Stuckemarkt in Berlin (2012). The screenplay of Trash Story was a finalist in the competition of the Ministry of Culture for the performance of contemporary art, as was her play White Balloons. Magda Fertacz works as a dramaturg with leading Polish directors. Her plays have been produced and published in Poland and abroad, and  have been translated into Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Hungarian, Swedish, German, Czech, Slovak, Hebrew, Romanian and English.