ABOUT

Weronika Maria Kuśmider is a theatre director, certified coach, and conflict mediator, sharing her life between Poland and France.

As director, she trained at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Drama School in Warsaw, Ivan Vyrypaev Theatre School, and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. She also graduated in Liberal Arts and Inter-Area Individual Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences from the University of Warsaw. 

Weronika Maria Kuśmider is the founder of Fundacja Atelier Entre-Deux, a non-profit organization producing artistic projects, providing educational and professional support for creators and culture workers, and acting for multicultural dialogue through socially engaged artistic practices.

THEATRE

Deep text analysis sits at the heart of Weronika’s directing practice. Playwrights such as McPherson, Vyrypaev, Dukovski, Ibsen, Shakespeare, and Chekhov, to name a few, have inspired her thinking and storytelling.

In 2021, Weronika received the ZAIKS Association of Authors Prize at the 10th Young Directors Forum for her show, “Un soir d'avril”, based on Julio Cortazar’s novel “Hopscotch”, for sensitivity to the original literary text and the ability to update and expand its meanings by consciously placing it in a new, original context.

COACHING FOR ARTISTS

In 2020, Weronika launched Coaching For Artists – a project helping creatives navigate and develop their artistic careers.
As a certified coach and a conflict mediator in training, she offers workshops and individual sessions for artists, art schools, organizations, and collectives.

In 2022, thanks to the TransferHub grant, Weronika, in collaboration with Paulina Kwiatkowska-Chylińska, created Widzialnik Artystki – a social innovation aiming at increasing visibility of female artists.
Widzialnik Artystki is available in Polish in the form of a workbook.