Biography
Anna Karasińska, a stage directress, attended the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź and the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Łódź, graduated from the Faculty of Direction at the Leon Schiller National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź. Her student short films, features and documentaries were shown at several dozen festivals around the world, many winning international prizes. She made her theatre debut with her original production of Ewelina’s Crying, staged in 2015 at TR Warszawa as part of the “TR Territory” (TEREN TR) project. In 2016, Anna Karasińska won the Kazimierz Krzanowski promotional award for Ewelina’s Crying at the 51st KONTRAPUNKT Small-Theatre-Forms Festival. In 2016, Karasińska directed the Second Production at the Polish Theatre in Poznań (Teatr Polski w Poznaniu), followed that same year by Birthday staged as part of the micro-theatre at Komuna/Warszawa. In 2017, she also directed another original play at TR Warszawa – Fantasia, which was shown e.g. at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2018, Festival Trans-Amériques, Kunstenfestivaldesarts and Zürcher Theater Spektakel in 2019. In 2018, she directed 2118. Karasińska at the Nowy Teatr in Warsaw.