Experience

Magda Romanska's name is unmistakable in the field of Performing Arts and Media on an international scale. Along with other projects, this expert has served as Principal Investigator at Harvard University's metaLAB and chairs the Transmedia Arts Seminar at the renowned Mahindra Humanities Center. She has also developed numerous studies linked to institutions such as the Center for European Studies and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

Her lines of work focus on the intersection of art, humanities, technology and transmedia storytelling. Within that encompassing framework, they also include multiplatform and metaverse dramaturgy, and the interaction between humans and Artificial Intelligence in performance. From his in-depth studies on these fields, he has created Drametrics, a quantitative and computational analysis of dramatic texts.

She is also the founder, executive director and editor-in-chief of TheTheatreTimes.com, the world's largest digital theater portal. She also launched Performap.org, an interactive digital map of theater festivals, funded through the Yale Digital Humanities Lab and an LMDA innovation grant. On the other hand, he has also been in charge of the development of the International Online Theatre Festival (IOTF), an annual global streaming theater festival, which so far has reached more than one million participants. In addition, this initiative has been awarded the Second International Culture Online Award for "Best Online Project", chosen among 452 other proposals from 20 countries.

Dr. Romanska has also been awarded the MacDowell, Apothetae and Lark Theatre Playwriting grants from the Time Warner Foundation. She has also received the PAHA Creative Award and the Elliott Hayes Award for Excellence in Playwriting. She has also received awards from the American Association for Theatre Research and the Polish Studies Association.

  • Principal Investigator at Harvard metaLAB
  • Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief at TheTheatreTimes.com
  • Research Associate at the Minda Center for European Studies in Gunzburg
  • Research Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
  • Professor of Performing Arts at Emerson College
  • Associate Professor at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society 
  • Ph.D. in Theatre, Film and Dance from Cornell University 
  • M.A. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University 
  • Graduate of Yale School of Drama and the Department of Comparative Literature 
  • Chair of the Transmedia Arts Seminar at the Mahindra Humanities Center 
  • Member of the Advisory Board at Digital Theatre+
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