Malgorzata Cohen

I am a freelance director, educator, mentor, tutor, writer, actor who has 5 years experience staging 4 star immersive and site-specific productions in theatres in London. Since founding UWAGA! Theatre Company in 2015 I have been producing, directing, training and leading actors in ensemble performances of plays from a repertoire of The Theatre of the Absurd.

My interests lie in devising for stage, work and practises of Michael Chekhov and Tadeusz Kantor, using stream of consciousness and confessional poetry as a devising tool in creating performances.

I see theatre as a laboratory of ideas, a space to engage in a dialogue with the audience to confront, provoke and challenge.

Credits

The Crazy Locomotive The Cockpit S.I Witkacy 1week / 2015

Antigone in New York The Rag Factory J. Glowacki 1 week / 2015

The Madman and the Nun Chelsea Theatre S.I Witkacy 1 week / 2015

Training

2016 – 2018 – MA Actor Training and Coaching, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London.
2012 – 2014 – MA Theatre Directing at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham.
2014 – Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Translation Studies, London Metropolitan University (Distinction)
2013 – Postgraduate Certificate in Education, Institute of Education, University of London.
2012 – 2012– Directing Different Plays at the City Literary Institute (Marber, Coward, Shakespeare, Aeschylus).
2011 – 2012– A Foundation Course in Drama (Acting) at the City Literary Institute.
1999 - 2001 – Master’s Degree in English: English - Canadian short stories: focus on women at the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznan, Poland.
1991 – 1995 – Actor Training at ‘Akademia Słowa’ (‘The Academy of Spoken Word’) at rhapsodic theatre - STP. ‘Dialog’ Theatre, Koszalin, Poland.