Ewa Mikuła

Dramaturg, director, author based in Poland. A graduate of Theater Studies (specialisation: performative studies) at the Jagiellonian University and Theater Directing (specialisation: dramaturgy) at AST National Academy of Theater Arts in Kraków. The winner of the Creative Scholarship of the City of Kraków. In her directing works she focusses on intimate, small narrations, especially in documentary forms, drawing on techniques “verbatim” and “devised theatre”. She believes that small narrations can be a lens of larger processes. Topics that she has undertaken in her works are: minority identity, faith of modern people, coming of age, Polish Sign Language, Silesia working class. As a dramaturg she collaborated with directors in state theaters as well as independent initiatives creating the texts and dramaturgy for plenty of shows among others: Work, work (2020), Dialog monthly, co-written with Piotr Froń; The Lost Years (2021) Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival; Tales of the Blocks of Flats (2022) dir. M. Streker, Wrocław Puppet Theater, Pustostan (2021) by K. Zdunek, National Stary Theater. She is a fan of languages, especially focused on how languages influence people’s perception.