ZOFIA GUSTOWSKA

ARTISTIC ASSISTANT of the JK Theatre in Opole since SEPTEMBER 2024

Graduate of the Faculty of Directing and Dramaturgy (specializing in theater directing) at the Academy of Theater Arts in Cracow, she also completed Theater Studies at the Academy of Theater Arts in Warsaw and the dramaturgy module at the Laboratory of New Theater Practices (SWPS University, Warsaw). She participated in the New Dramaturgy Stage at the W. Siemaszkowa Theater in Rzeszów. Her work has been recognized with the ZAiKS Association of Authors Award at the Forum of Young Directing in Cracow (2019) and the Theater Institute in Warsaw’s award for best master’s thesis on theater, performance, and spectacle (2018).

She has directed the plays: NIKO, or a Simple Ordinary Story (S. Żeromski Theater, Kielce), A Room of One's Own (Łaźnia Nowa Theater, Cracow), kasandra (SOHO Theater/Festival of New Epiphanies), and Spring Awakening (Ochota Theater, Warsaw). Additionally, she directed performance readings at the JK Opole Theatre, the W. Siemaszkowa Theater in Rzeszów, the Ateneum Theater in Warsaw, the National Stary Theater in Cracow, and the Dramatic Theater in Warsaw. Her online etude In Search of Lost Time (Old Theater, Cracow) and the poetic-musical evening A Wall of Two (Singer’s Warsaw Festival, 2024) are among her other works. She also contributed directing and dramaturgy for West Coast, the graduation play directed by Maja Kleczewska with IV-year students at the Academy of Theater Arts in Cracow. She has worked as an assistant to notable directors such as Natalia Korczakowska, Maja Kleczewska, Árpád Schilling, and Michał Zadara.

Her play NIKO, or a Simple Ordinary Story, adapted for audiences on the autism spectrum, was a finalist in the Competition for the Staging of Polish Contemporary Play (2024). A Room of One's Own was presented at the Divine Comedy Theatre Festival (2022) and screened as part of the Forum for Young Directing (2022).