Magda Romanska

executive director

Magda Romanska, theatre scholar, playwright, dramaturg, and translator, is a Professor of Performing Arts at Emerson College in Boston, MA, a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, and a Principal Researcher at metaLAB (at) Harvard. Romanska is the author or editor of five critically acclaimed theatre books, including The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor (2012); TheaterMachine: Tadeusz Kantor in Context (2020, co-edited with Kathleen Cioffi); Reader in Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism (2016, co-edited with Alan Ackerman); and The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy, a leading and best-selling handbook of dramaturgy. She is also the sole editor of a series Focus on Dramaturgy from Routledge. She has taught at Yale School of Drama, Harvard, and Cornell University. She graduated from Stanford and received her doctorate from Cornell. theatre and opera productions as either dramaturg, playwright, or director. MagdaRomanska.com