Marta Górnicka

Marta Górnicka (Poland) is a theater director and author.

She is known for rediscovering the principle of the chorus in contemporary theater. The chorus, which she places at the center as the sole main character, is always a critical instrument for examining mechanisms of control, exclusion, and violence as an expression of community. Górnicka's works aim to give space to particularly marginalized voices and explore the relationship between the individual and society. In 2019, she founded the Political Voice Institute (PVI) as a laboratory for choir theater at the Maxim Gorki Theater, a workshop center for the use of the collective voice/body and language.

With her latest production Kassandra, Górnicka is presenting a work for the first time at the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Repulic of Vienna and in Vienna in general.

Her works include Magnificat (2011), in which she used biblical texts to stage a commentary on Catholic culture and the role of women, and Mothers. A Song for Wartime (2023) with a choir of refugee women from Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland. Her production M(other) Courage was nominated for the German theater award “Der Faust” in 2016, and in 2025 she received the ITI Prize from the International Theatre Institute