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Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk

Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk is a playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. Her plays have received numerous Polish and international awards, have been translated into fourteen languages, and have been staged in Poland and around the world. Six contemporary operas composed to her librettos have appeared on major stages in Poland, and her adaptation of Thomas Mann’s “The Magic Mountain” garnered critical acclaim. Her screenwriting credits include feature films, television series, and experimental works. She has lectured and taught master classes on playwriting.

She received a scholarship from The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers for 2025–2026. She has been living in New York since September 2025, working on a play and a book on the subject of “the Lokot Republic”—an autonomous Russian fascist republic in the occupied territories of the USSR during World War II.