Ekaterina Avgustenyak (
Playwright & Production Design) is an artist, dramatist and stage-director, born in Tyumen but now living in St. Petersburg. Ekaterina has studied graphic design and stage design. She was a resident of the Practice Post-drama laboratory at the Practice Theater (Moscow, 2018−19) and was a finalist of the All-Russian competition of projects of young artists NOVA ART (St. Petersburg, 2019). Her play
Lorem Ipsum was on the shortlist for the fringe program of the Lubimovka Festival in 2018. Her play
Opus DNA, presented in the Lubimovka Fringe Festival, won the Brewhouse Stage Prize; the play was presented again, directed by the playwright herself, at the Meyerhold Center in Moscow in February 2020.