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Mira
Mańka

Mira
Mańka

Director, activist, feminist. She is a graduate of the Directing Department at the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków. She serves on the Board of the Polish Theatre Directors’ Guild (Gildia Polskich Reżyserek i Reżyserów Teatralnych). She was awarded a European Theatre Convention scholarship for 2023. She has participated in numerous residency programs, including: Art Incubator AiR Goyki 3 (2024), Heart of Europe (2023), the International Shakespeare Festival: New Yorick (2023), Komuna//Warszawa (2023), New Dramaturgy Stage at the Wanda Siemaszkowa Theatre in Rzeszów (2022), Sopot Non-Fiction (2021), Nowy i Młodzi – a project for young artists at Nowy Theatre (Łódź, 2021 and 2022), Młodzi w Starym: online edition – a project for young artists at Stary Thetare (2020), and Młodzi w Starym in Kraków (2019). Her production Picnic at Hanging Rock earned the Grand Prix for Best Young Director at the 'm-teatr' – Koszalin Youth Theatre Confrontations Festival (2020). Her project Shakespeare: A Model won First Prize at the SzekspirOFF Competition and the Audience Award at the Shakespeare Festival (2021). She has directed productions commissioned by the Teraz Poliż Artistic Group (The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, 2024), the Documentary and Feature Film Studios (WFDiF) – Inni (TV play, 2024), the Pinokio Theatre in Łódź (wszystko źle! najgorszy na świecie spektakl o dojrzewaniu, 2024), and twice for the Juliusz Osterwa Theatre in Lublin (jak płakać w miejscach publicznych, 2024; Niewiarygodna historia Małej S., 2025). Other directing credits include: Sztuka kochania at the Jan Kochanowski Theatre in Opole (2023), Lover’s Complaint at the Polish Theatre in Poznań and the Shakespeare Festival (2023), Moim babkom rewolucjonistkom at the Nowy Theatre in Łódź (2021), Shakespeare: A Model at the Shakespeare Festival and Rozbark Dance Theatre (2021), Enoch Arden at the Opera Rara Festival (2020), Picnic at Hanging Rock at the Contemporary Theatre in Szczecin (2020), Czartoryska. Artefakty (2019) and The Little Mermaid (2020) at the National Stary Theatre in Kraków. She has also founded and moderate a mutual support group for directors and playwrights. She assists with grant and scholarship applications and leads feedback sessions and workshops.

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