Sandra Szwarc was born in 1989 and is a graduate of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk (piano), of the Theatre Studies Department at the University of Gdańsk, as well as the South Baltic Academy of Independent Theatre. She is a two-time finalist of the Gdyńska Nagroda Dramaturgiczna (Gdynia Dramaturgical Award) for her play Von Bingen. Historia prawdziwa (Von Bingen. A True Story) (2015) as well as Supernova Live (2016), which was honored with an Alternative Dramaturgy Award. She is a recipient of the 2016 Talanton award for her dramaturgical debut at the Polish Radio Theatre. Von Bingen. A True Story inspired a radio play for the Polish Radio Theatre (dir. W. Modestowicz) and won the Grand Prix at the Two Theatre’s Festival, 2016. The radio play also qualified as a finalist at the XX Jubilee Festival Prix Marulić in Croatia. Her newest play, Doppelganger, was the winner of the II Dramaturgical Competition – Strefy Kontaktu – in Wrocław, 2017.
