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Magda Romanska is a playwright, dramaturg, and theatre scholar. She is a professor of theatre at Emerson College, in Boston, MA and principal researcher at metaLAB (at) Harvard. As a playwright, she is a recipient of the MacDowell Fellowship, the Mass Council Artist Fellowship for Dramatic Writing, the Apothetae and Lark Theatre Playwriting Fellowship from the Time Warner Foundation, and PAHA Creative Arts Prize. Her play, The Life and Times of Stephen Hawking was developed at the Lark Theatre and presented at the Roundabout Theatre Reverb Festival, and at Queens Theatre in Brooklyn, NY. Life Is Elsewhere received a production at the Speakeasy Theatre Company in Boston. Her popular writing appeared in Big Think, The Reed Magazine, The LA Review of Books, The Boston Globe, The Conversation, Salon, PBS, and The Cosmopolitan Review. She has taught at Harvard University, Yale School of Drama, and Cornell University. She’s a graduate of Stanford, and of Cornell's doctoral program.
Difficult comedy of ideas and ideologies. * The Hollywood Reporter * An uncompromising vision. . . . fiercely confrontational new play. * Los Angeles Times * Relentlessly provocative and challenging. * LA Weekly *
