Magda Romanska is a writer, dramaturg, and theatre theorist. She is Visiting Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, Associate Professor of Theatre and Dramaturgy at Emerson College, Dramaturg for Boston Lyric Opera, and Research Associate at Harvard University’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

Romanska is the winner of the Gerald Kahan Scholar's Prize from The American Society for Theatre Research and the Aquila Polonica Article Prize from The Polish Studies Association.

Her books include The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor (Anthem Press, 2012), Boguslaw Schaeffer: An Anthology (Oberon Books, 2012), The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy (Routledge, forthcoming in 2014), and Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming in 2014).

Romanska's selected dramaturgical credits include The Magic Flute, Marat/Sade, Hamlet, Macbeth, Amadeus, The Maids, The Three Sisters, Iphegenia at Aulis (Yale Repertory Theatre, dir. Rebecca Taichman), and Café Variations (a co-production of SITI Company and Arts Emerson, directed by Anne Bogart). This summer, she will be chairing the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) conference in Boston.

In addition to her theoretical work, Romanska writes creative fiction and non-fiction. Most recently, her humorous short story "How I Survived Socialism" was published in The Cosmopolitan Review, and her play, Opheliamachine, had its world premiere at critically acclaimed City Garage Theatre, and received a slew of rave reviews from several Los Angeles media outlets, including The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, LAWeekly, and NPR affiliate KCRW-FM.

A former exchange scholar at the Yale School of Drama and fellow at the Mellon School of Theatre and Performance Research at Harvard University, Romanska graduated with honors from Stanford University and holds a Ph.D. in Theatre and Film from Cornell University.