MONIKA STRZEPKA

Chopin’s Nose Award Competition juror.

Born in 1976 in Tuchów, she is a theatre director and author of many stage hits, which at the same time become an important voice in social discussions. Together with playwright Paweł Demirski, she forms the most popular couple in Polish theatre. She studied at the Faculty of Drama Direction at the Theatre Academy in Warsaw. She debuted in 2004 in Teatr Polski in Bydgoszcz, where she staged Anna Bednarska's text ‘With One's Face Against the Wall’. She later staged, among others, Werner Schwab's ‘Die Präsidentinnen’ (Polish Stage in Czech Cieszyn) and Paweł Demirski's ‘Dziady ekshumacja’ based on Adam Mickiewicz's "Dziady" (Polish Theatre in Wrocław). Together with Demirski she also prepared, among others, ‘Long Live the War!!!’ (Teatr Dramatyczny in Wrocław), ‘In the Name of Jacob S.’ (Teatr Dramatyczny in Warsaw), ‘Courtney Love’ (Teatr Polski in Wrocław), ‘Warsaw Battle 1920’ (National Old Theatre in Krakow), ‘The Undivine Comedy: I’M GONNA TELL GOD EVERYTHING!’(Stary Theatre in Kraków).