Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk - about the author

Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk (1964) ― considered to be among the most interesting contemporary playwrights and screenwriters. She graduated from the Department of Journalism and Political Science at the University of Warsaw, where she also earned a degree in gender studies. She is also a graduate of the scriptwriting program at the Łódź Film School. Author of numerous short stories, plays, radio dramas, and screenplays for film and television. She debuted in 2004 with the drama Psychoterapia dla psów i kobiet [Psychotherapy for Dogs and Women], part of a project by Teatr Rozmaitości in Warsaw.
She is the author of such plays as Szajba [Loose Screws], Śmierć Człowieka-Wiewiórki [The Death of the Squirrel Man], Katarzyna Medycejska [Catherine Medici], Zaginiona Czechosłowacja [Lost Czechoslovakia], Burmistrz [The Mayor], Walizka [Suitcase], Żelazna kurtyna [Iron Curtain], Madonna, Bruno Schulz: Mesjasz [Bruno Schulz: Messiah], and a musical for children titled Niezwykła podróż Pana Wieszaka [The Incredible Journey of Mr. Coathanger] (dir. Iwo Verdral, 2009).
Her plays have been staged by Jan Klata (Loose Screws, The Death of the Squirrel Man ― a radio drama), Piotr Kruszczyński (Suitcase), Marcin Liber (The Death of the Squirrel Man, Catherine Medici ― God, Honor, Fatherland), Natalia Korczakowska (The Death of the Squirrel Man), Nina Gühlstorff (The End of the World ― Theater Magdeburg), Michał Zadara (Bruno Schulz: Messiah ― Schauspeilhaus Wien), Karel Kral (Lost Czechoslovakia ― Divadlo na Zábradli, Prague).
The Death of the Squirrel Man, directed by Marcin Libera, was staged in Germany at the Kampnagel theatre in Hamburg during the Transfusion 2007 festival, in Berlin at the Hebbel am Ufer theatre in Berlin during the second edition of the Cut and Paste Festival of Young European Theatre, at the New Plays from Europe festival ― the Theatre-Biennale of the Staatstheater Wiesbaden (2008), and in Bucharest (2008). Her plays have been read in Poland, Sweden, and in the US: in New York, New Haven, and Minneapolis.
Jan Klata’s production of Loose Screws won the Journalists’ Award and took second place at the R@port Festival of Contemporary Polish Plays in Gdynia in 2009. Suitcase won the Metaphors of Reality competition at Poznań’s Teatr Polski: the play was awarded the Main Prize and the Audience Award in September 2008. A radio drama directed by Julia Werno was created for Polish Radio 2 in October 2008, and was awarded the Grand Prix at the Polish Radio and Television Festival Two Theatres ― Sopot 2009. The pre-premiere of Suitcase, directed by Piotr Kruszczyński, was held at Teatr Polski in Poznań. The production won a distinction at the 4th R@port Festival in Gdynia (May 2009).
Madonna won 1st prize at the J. Szaniawski Theatre in Wałbrzych for drama inspired by Aleksander Fredro’s Revenge (November 2009). April 2010 marked the premiere of The End of the World, commissioned by Theater Magdeburg (Germany) and which opened at the OstOstOst – 20 Jahre Westen festival, directed by Nina Gühlstorff and translated by Andreas Volk.
Bruno Schulz: Messiah, directed by Michał Zadara, premiered in Vienna in October 2010 at Schauspeilhaus Wien and was invited to perform in Poland at R@port 2010.
Sikorska-Miszczuk’s plays have been translated and performed all over Europe and the USA. The playwright received scholarships from the Ministry of Culture, the US CEC ArtsLink foundation (October–November in the USA), and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute (May 2010). She worked alongside Marcin Liber as a playwright for the multimedia project “Herbert – Reconstructing the Poet” (2008), “ID” (2009), and the oratorio Our Hell (2010). Many of her plays have been published in the theatrical magazine “Dialog”, and several have been translated into German, English, French, and Romanian.

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