Magda Romanska

executive director

Magda Romanska is a writer, and interdisciplinary scholar at the intersection of theatre, digital humanities, and technology, whose work is reshaping how we understand performance in the digital age. Her research spans transmedia storytelling, hybrid dramaturgy, and computational analysis of dramatic texts, including the development of drametrics — a transvergent quantitative theory of dramatic structure. Romanska’s past publications cover a range of areas, from post-traumatic theatre and theory, to a theory of comedy, tragedy, and dramaturgy. She is the author or editor of six critically acclaimed scholarly books, including Digital Access to the Performing Arts: A Comparative Study of Legal and Structural Challenges (2026); TheaterMachine: Tadeusz Kantor in Context (2020); Reader in Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism (2016); The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy , (2014) a leading and best-selling handbook of dramaturgy; The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor (2012); and Boguslaw Schaeffer: An Anthology (2013). Website: MagdaRomanska.com