Auteur: Kasia Lech

Kasia Lech is a scholar, actor, storyteller, dramaturg, puppeteer, and Associate Professor in Global Performance History at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her research and creative practice explore theatre through practice-based and traditional scholarship and primarily focus on theatre in relation to multilingualism, verse, translation, migration, dramaturgy, and cross-cultural encounters. Kasia is the author of Dramaturgy of Form: Performing Verse in Contemporary Theatre (2021). She performed internationally and co-founded Polish Theatre Ireland, a multilingual theatre company based in Dublin. Kasia is an Executive Director at The Theatre Times.com, a global theatre portal which seeks to decolonize theatre criticism. She also co-convenes the Translation Adaptation Dramaturgy working group at the International Federation for Theatre Research.