Figzał-Janikowska, Magdalena
Theatre scholar and cultural studies researcher with a PhD in the humanities. Assistant Professor at the Institute of Culture Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice. She is the author of Władysław Hasior’s Visual Performances (2024) and Musical Spaces in Contemporary Polish Theatre (2017), coeditor of Writing for the Stage: Narratives of Contemporary Theatre (2019) and Drama and Experience(2014). She also wrote the guide A Walking Guide. Cracow of Tadeusz Kantor (2020). A theatre critic, she edits the “Theatre” section of the biweekly cultural journal artPapier and contributes to Didaskalia. Gazeta Teatralna, the monthly Teatr, the theatre quarterly Nietak!t, and the web portal teatralny.pl. From 2018 to 2022, she codeveloped the Musical Trace of Cracow project with the Cracow Culture Forum, devoted to Polish theatre music. From 2014 to 2021, she worked with Crico teka, the Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor in Cracow, devising original exhibition tours and musiceducation projects. Her research focuses on contemporary performance, stage music, and experimental forms of music theatre. She leads the research team Archive – Text – Stage: Performative Spaces of Contemporary Theatre at the Institute of Culture Studies, University of Silesia.