{"id":15818,"date":"2025-04-09T16:47:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T14:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/literackisopot.pl\/?post_type=people&#038;p=15818"},"modified":"2025-04-22T14:20:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T12:20:56","slug":"mira-manka","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"http:\/\/2025.literackisopot.pl\/en\/people\/mira-manka\/","title":{"rendered":"Mira Ma\u0144ka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director, activist, feminist. She is a graduate of the Directing Department at the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Krak\u00f3w. She serves on the Board of the Polish Theatre Directors\u2019 Guild (Gildia Polskich Re\u017cyserek i Re\u017cyser\u00f3w 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 Rzesz\u00f3w (2022), Sopot Non-Fiction (2021), Nowy i M\u0142odzi \u2013 a project for young artists at Nowy Theatre (\u0141\u00f3d\u017a, 2021 and 2022), M\u0142odzi w Starym: online edition \u2013 a project for young artists at Stary Thetare (2020), and M\u0142odzi w Starym in Krak\u00f3w (2019). Her production <em>Picnic at Hanging Rock<\/em> earned the Grand Prix for Best Young Director at the &#8216;m-teatr&#8217; \u2013 Koszalin Youth Theatre Confrontations Festival (2020). Her project <em>Shakespeare: A Model<\/em> won First Prize at the SzekspirOFF Competition and the Audience Award at the Shakespeare Festival (2021). She has directed productions commissioned by the Teraz Poli\u017c Artistic Group (<em>The Feminist Killjoy Handbook<\/em>, 2024), the Documentary and Feature Film Studios (WFDiF) \u2013 <em>Inni<\/em> (TV play, 2024), the Pinokio Theatre in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a (<em>wszystko \u017ale! najgorszy na \u015bwiecie spektakl o dojrzewaniu<\/em>, 2024), and twice for the Juliusz Osterwa Theatre in Lublin (<em>jak p\u0142aka\u0107 w miejscach publicznych<\/em>, 2024; <em>Niewiarygodna historia Ma\u0142ej S.<\/em>, 2025). Other directing credits include: <em>Sztuka kochania<\/em> at the Jan Kochanowski Theatre in Opole (2023), <em>Lover\u2019s Complaint<\/em> at the Polish Theatre in Pozna\u0144 and the Shakespeare Festival (2023), <em>Moim babkom rewolucjonistkom <\/em>at the Nowy Theatre in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a (2021), <em>Shakespeare: A Model<\/em> at the Shakespeare Festival and Rozbark Dance Theatre (2021), <em>Enoch Arden<\/em> at the Opera Rara Festival (2020), <em>Picnic at Hanging Rock<\/em> at the Contemporary Theatre in Szczecin (2020), <em>Czartoryska. Artefakty<\/em> (2019) and <em>The Little Mermaid<\/em> (2020) at the National Stary Theatre in Krak\u00f3w. 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">pic. from the guest&#8217;s archive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15817,"template":"","class_list":["post-15818","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mira Ma\u0144ka | Literacki Sopot<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mira Ma\u0144ka - guest of the 14th edition of the Sopot by The Book Festival (Literacki Sopot).\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/2025.literackisopot.pl\/en\/people\/mira-manka\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mira Ma\u0144ka | Literacki Sopot\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mira Ma\u0144ka - 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