Danusia is a writer, director, producer and actor for theatre and television.  Her play ONE GLASS WALL (Studio 503, 2004), directed by Crispin Bonham Carter, was short-listed for the Pearson Prize and published by Oberon Books.  Her recent work includes: HEADLANDS (Mercury Theatre Colchester and The Cockpit London, 2011). It has been written and directed by Danusia and is an Arts Council funded co-production with the Mercury and The Hal Company (Danusia’s own Company set up in 1992).  The play is an exploration of the mind using text, movement, film and music.  Other work includes: BETWEEN THE CRACKS (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, 2010) and LINCOLN ROAD (Eastern Angles Theatre Company, 2010).

Danusia was an attached writer at The National Theatre Studio (2006).  She is an Associate Writer, Director and Actor for Menagerie Theatre Company and has worked on a number of youth projects and productions.  A recent youth project is: THE FORCE OF NATURE (Theatre Royal York, Polka Theatre, London; The Drum Theatre, Plymouth and Dundee Rep. 2011), a writing commission for The Playhouse Festival.

Danusia’s Hotbed play is called ASCENSION. Henry Denton is a modern day Sisyphus, he pushes a bolder up Primrose Hill in Camden, London.  When he reaches the top, it rolls down again and he is obliged to start the journey again. ASCENSION is an exploration of work, drive and struggle.

Danusia wrote the monologue STILL LIFE about a woman who never moves and wanted to write a companion piece about a man who never stops moving. Human beings often become “human doings”: why? Is it a love of work, a need for struggle or keeping busy to avoid feelings, memories?