Anna Durisikova is a film and theatre director, producer, translator and performance artist. She studied Theatre Directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático in Madrid and got her PhD in literature and translation at Comenius University in Bratislava. As director, she has staged plays by Ivan Vyrypaev, Federico García Lorca, Eduardo Rovner, Fernando Arrabal and a play based on the memoirs of Herculine Barbin. Her work fuses different kinds of art, focusing on marginal topics, minorities, gender violence, environmental violence, animal rights, and queer utopias. She works as director and producer for the production company Admiral Films. EDUCATION Theatre Faculty / Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava 2022 – 2024 master’s degree: Theatre Directing Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático en Madrid 2023 – 2024 Erasmus program: Theatre Directing Faculty of Arts / Comenius University in Bratislava 2014 – 2018 doctoral studies: Literary Science doctoral thesis: Cervantes as a Dramatist (on the forms of metatheatre in Cervantes’ dramatic texts) 2012 – 2014 master’s degree: Translation (English and Spanish language) master’s thesis: The Spanish “Golden Age” Theatre Today (on the works of contemporary Spanish playwright Ernesto Caballero) 2009 – 2012 bachelor’s degree: Translation (English and Spanish language) bachelor’s thesis: The Presence of Sacred and Profane Elements Within the Dramatic Pieces of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
