Sometimes I think that I am Georgian.
I love hachapuri and words that
end with “i”. “Hachapuri”, for exmple.


                            «Exodus»




     

















































































You’re confusing love with freedom, Hammad!
                         
        «Berlin Syndrome»



Berlin, Germany   
+49 176 59680762
theborodina@gmail.com

Education

2007—2011 B.A. Academy of contemporary art, Department of Arts and Humanities (diploma with honors), Yekaterinburg, Russia

2010–2014 M.A. Theater institute, Faculty of Playwriting, Yekaterinburg, Russia

2017-2018 B.A., Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, Russia
Award-winning playwright. Her works have garnered critical acclaim and has been shortlisted in the various drama contests. Polina teaches drama, creative writing and leads theatrical labs. Her plays were staged all around Russia, in Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Germany.

Projects & awards

  • 2024 Fellow of the Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany
  • 2023 Curator and director at the Independent Playwright Anti-War Festival Echo Of Lübimovka. Berlin, ACUD Theater
  • 2022 Harlequin Festival Prize “The best work of a playwright” for the work on the play Sugar child
  • 2021 Winner of the Culmination Award for play Fish and chocolate
  • 2020-2021 Art director of the Lubimovka Young Drama Festival
  • 2019 Playwright-translator at the plays exchange program LARK+Lubimovka (New York —Moscow)
  • 2018 Winner of the Culmination Award for play Exodus
  • 2012 Winner of the Characters Award with play Nina lives here
  • 2013-2016 Founder of the theater festival For!text, Yekaterinburg
  • 2015  Program director of the New Drama Center, Yekaterinburg
  • Performances based on the plays King Matt, Exodus, Sugar child were  long- and shortlisted by the theater award in Russia Golden Mask


Stagings (highlights)

RUN: Refugee rave
Berlin, Ballhaus Prinzenallee, Berlin, 2023

Mets mystical detective
Kellertheatre, Tallinn, 2022

Exodus
Mtiuz, Moscow, 2022 
(cancelled under pressure from the Russian authorities)

1000 Years Together performance exploring the subject of death
5th Ural Industrial Biennale, 2021

Come out of the Cage science opera
Moscow, New Opera, 2021

Bolotnaya Case performance about political prisoners of the Putin regime
Theatre.DOC, Moscow, 2015

Kanishevsky online performance
USA, Latvia, Mexico, Russia, 2020

Exodus
Shalom Theatre, Moscow, 2021

Sugar Child play about childhood during the repressions
Meyerhold center, Moscow, 2021

Present Indefinite Tense
Vologda Youth Theater, 2020

Sun, Moon and Stars
Nuku Theatre, Tallinn, 2019
Viy
Arkhangelsk Youth Theatre, 2016

King Matt
Globus Theatre, Novosibirsk, 2015

Bus No. 33 documentary performance Yekaterinburg History Museum, 2017

SashBash. Sverdlovsk-Leningrad and back
Center for Contemporary Drama, Yekaterinburg, 2014

Nina Lives Here
School of the Modern Play, Moscow, 2014

Stagings (highlights)

How to get to the library? documentary theater  online course
Theatre.doc, Moscow
Word and movement
International Writing Program
IOWA Writing University
Hello, reality!
a course on the various trends in modern drama
Saint Petersburg, Creating writing school

Publications

Selected poems, ROAR (Russian Oppositional Arts Review), Third and Sixth Issues, 2022-2023

Play Forest, Tradition&Avant-Garde magazine N 3, 2022

Accomplices, Anthology.doc, Bookmate, 2020 (removed from the website in 2022 for reasons of censorship)

Three quarters of sadness. Bolotnaya Square case, Anthology.doc, Bookmate, 2020
(removed from the site in 2022 for reasons of censorship)

Play Exodus, The collection of the best texts of the Independent Playwriting Festival Lubimopvka Lyubimovka. Plays­, Publishing House Vezetz, 2020, Moscow

Play Barbarians, Journal of Contemporary Dramaturgy, 2019, No. 3, July, Moscow

Play Exodus:, Magazine LiTERRAture № 132, February, 2019

Play "Barbarians", Best Plays of 2018, Drama Competition The Characters, Livebook publishing house, Moscow, 2018

Play "Exodus", Culmination. Best Plays of 2018, Contemporary Arts Development Fund, 2018
Play Three quarters of sadness, Anthology of  Contemporary Russian Plays V.3. Life in opposition. THEATER.DOC, editor Andrey Moskvin, Warsaw, 2016

Play Bolotnaya Square case.doc, Colta.ru, 2015

Play Nina lives here, Journal of Contemporary Dramaturgy, 2013, No. 2, April, Moscow

Play Nina lives here, Best Plays of 2012, Drama Competition The Characters, Livebook publishing house, Moscow, 2012