Gosia Wdowik

Theater artist and current GILDIA (Union of Polish Theater Makers) member Gosia Wdowik was born in 1988. Despite having her heart in Poland, she often imagines herself elsewhere. She worked with the subject of burnout and explored the area between exhaustion and agency during her Master's studies at DAS Theatre (2020–2022) by incorporating activism-related techniques into her artistic practice. In her performance Shame (Nowy Theater in Warsaw), she explored social shame related to working-class origins in her own family over three generations of women. Her main concern was how to create both theater and change from a place of exhaustion.