Biography

Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk is a playwright, librettist, dramaturg and screenwriter, and an author of radio plays and plays for children. Born in Warsaw, she studied journalism, political science and gender studies at the University of Warsaw, and screenwriting at the Łódź Film School. She worked as a journalist and copywriter before turning to theatre.

She debuted in 2006 with The Death of the Squirrel Man, directed by Marcin Liber. Her plays have been staged by directors including Jan Klata, Marcin Liber, Paweł Łysak, Michał Zadara, Andrzej Chyra, Piotr Kruszczyński, Natalia Korczakowska, Iwona Siekierzyńska and Wawrzyniec Kostrzewski — in Poland and in Vienna (Schauspielhaus, Burgtheater), Dresden, Birmingham, Zagreb and Mexico. Translated into 14 languages, her work has appeared in the Polish theatre monthly Dialog and in anthologies published by Seagull Books and Bloomsbury, among others. A selection of her plays, Siedem nieprzyjemnych sztuk teatralnych, w tym trzy o Żydach, was published in 2019.

She has written libretti for operas by Paweł Mykietyn (The Magic Mountain), Zygmunt Krauze (Yemaya – Queen of the Seas, Noc kruków) and Rafał Janiak (Człowiek z Manufaktury), and worked as dramaturg with Mariusz Treliński and Andrzej Chyra at the Polish National Opera. For screen, she wrote Kobro/Strzemiński (dir. Borys Lankosz) and co-wrote, with Jacek Bromski, the film and series U Pana Boga w Królowym Moście.

In 2025–2026 she is a Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, writing a play about the Lokot Republic — an experimental fascist Russian state formed by the Nazis — and its executioner.